Nineteen-year-old Kessey Jemmott, a first year creative arts
student at the University of The West Indies has won the lead role
in the three-hour comedy Cinderella, which runs from March 25 to March
30 at the La Joya Auditorium, St Joseph.
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Kessey hails from the Carenage area and is a member of the St
Peter’s RC Choir and is also a professional dancer.
Cinderella is written by the Crazy Catholic and
performed by members of the Love & Laughter Theatre to assist
several charities including CRY, the Rape Crisis Society, Habitat
for Humanity, Teen Challenge, Crimestoppers, Rainbow Rescue and
The Shelter.
The play was first staged in 2003 at St Mary’s College and
received standing ovations each night, by popular demand it has
returned. Experience the magic, feel the love and prepare to laugh
at Cinderella.
More info: Tickets cost $75 (general) and $150 (all inclusive)
and are available at La Joya or from any beneficiary or member of
the cast. For reservations please call 614-2232, 750-0104, 771-9516.
When: March 25 - March 29
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Time:
7.30 (Matinee shows start 4.30pm on Sunday and Tuesday March 30.
Talk
Tent repeat
Don’t
miss it this weekend! Two repeat performances of Talk Tent 2004 are
being staged. Tickets are $65 and can be obtained at Rhyner’s,
Crosby’s, Kam’s (Long Circular Mall) Fabi’s (West Mall),
Cleves (Frederick St), DiscoTrak (Curepe) and Off The Wall (Gulf City
Mall )
Produced
and directed by Paul Keens-Douglas the show played to sellout audiences
at Queen’s Hall in it’s usual after-carnival slot and features
a cast that includes Miguel Browne, Wendy Brewster, Felix Edinborough.
Samantha Pierre, Short Pants, Roy & Gloria, David Bereaux as singing
MC and special guests Farida Chapman and Marilyn Williams.
Come
on out and support the Talk Tent, where “Talk Is Art”.
When:
Tomorrow & Sunday
Time:
8pm (6.30pm on Sunday)
Where:
St Mary’s College Centennary Hall
Trini’s
Last Carnival
Inspired
by a dream, Trinidad’s newly formed theatre company, Golden Heart
Productions will show off its first production in April, Trini’s
Last Carnival.
The
company was established in February of last year by local actress-turned-playwright
Theresa Awai.
Awai’s
has performed in Playhouse Company’s One Of Our Sons, Home Sweet
Home, Derek Walcott’s Beef, No Chicken and she was last seen on
stage in 2002 in Earl Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance,
and as Vashti, in local soap opera Westwood Park.
Awai
says that her aim is to write plays with a spiritual theme.
She
explained that too much negativity abounds in our society today, and
her writing will highlight positive values and ideals which are sorely
missing in our daily lives.
Trini’s
Last Carnival is about a Trinidadian, Brian, who died on Carnival Tuesday
while playing mas and found himself in the astral world.
What
transpires when a ‘Trini’ finds himself in another environment?
He forms the ‘Trini Posse’, that’s what.
However,
the play has another level, a spiritual one and this is the real focus
of the play.
It
deals with divine love, man’s purpose in life, responsibility
for one’s action, and becoming a conscious co-worker with God.
Brian
goes about teaching his astral friends how to beat pan and chip to
steelband.
He
tells them about doubles, bake and shark and all fours.
When
he bounces up a partner, the talk turns to politics but events take
a turn for the worse when Brian decides to get involved in re-assigning
souls.
The
hilarious outcome is not to be missed.
The
play opens on April 1 and runs until April 4, at the Little Carib Theatre.
It
features actors such as Susan Hannays-Abraham, Clifford Learmond, Eric
Barry, Kurtis Gross, Conrad Parris, Candice Hughes and newcomers Zia
Holder and Martha Augustine.
The
director is Wendell Etienne.
More
info: 622-2967 or Little Carib Theatre from March 27.
