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Aug 11, 2008 News
Participants from the Technical Theatre Training Program, which was launched by the Carifesta Secretariat in June, yesterday displayed their artistic abilities with the staging of Errol John’s ‘Moon on a Rainbow Shawl’ at the National Cultural Centre.
The entire play was staged by persons who were trained over the past two months by professional theatre icons in Guyana.
Speaking with Kaieteur News yesterday, at the National Cultural Centre, Carifesta Artistic Director Dr. Paloma Mohamed said that, based on the portrayal of the play, she can deduce that the participants of the programme have done an ‘excellent’ job.
“We are very proud of them. This is the test piece…what is happening is that we have formed them into 12 companies and each company had a production to do…that they did all on their own from scratch, and so this is the evaluation…this is the first time we are going to see actually what the students have done,” Dr. Mohamed said.
The staging of the play at the National Cultural Centre over the weekend is the end of the second phase of the training programme.
The third phase will be conducted during Carifesta, when the participants will actually support companies and contingents that are coming for the event.
Kaieteur News’s General Manager Marcia Girard was among the set designers for Scenes One and Two in yesterday’s production.
‘Moon on a Rainbow Shawl’ is quite an intriguing and alluring play.
It depicts early 1950s, just after World War II in Trinidad; the weather is hot, the rum is flowing, the calypso is sweet and the gossip is plenty.
But behind the sun and laid-back lifestyle lies a yearning for something different, for a better life.
‘Moon on a Rainbow Shawl’ is set in the yard of a shantytown building as the cast follows, in soap opera style, the life of 14 people whose conflicting dreams and desires create a fusion of high anger, frustration, disapproval and longing.
At the workshop, participants were trained in areas such as acting, directing, hair and make up, production, set dressing, set construction, stage managing and costume management, among others.
Some of the trainers of the workshop are Henry Rodney, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento, Imtiaz Panday, Barrington Braithwaite, Daphne Rogers and Al Creighton.
Carifesta X will be held in Guyana from August 22 – 31, and over 25 countries have confirmed their participation.
The Carifesta celebrations first took place in a post-independence format in Guyana in 1972, and lasted for three weeks. (Tusika Martin)
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