Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama

'Not Only a Playwright But a Company'. The Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-818464-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Written at Derek Walcott's suggestion, and based on interviews with the playwright and actors, this is the first detailed study of a post-colonial theatre company and the problems of creating `serious' theatre in the former colonies. The book shows how Walcott strove to create a world class theatre ensemble in the West Indies - a Trinidadian Brecht Berliner ensemble - and traces his life and career in West Indian theatre, and the history of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop.

Beginning with an actors' studio and the vision of a West Indian theatre company of international standards with its own style of acting, Derek Walcott developed the most important theatre company in the West Indies. This was the company which first performed his Dream on Monkey Mountain, the musical version of Ti-Jean and his Brothers, The Joker of Seville, and O Babylon!

A major contribution to West Indian history and theatre, Bruce King's study reveals the heroic will of Derek Walcott and his actors, and their determination to prove that West Indian drama was a force with which to be reckoned.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations

- Part I. Roots 1948-1965

- 1: 1948-1959 Forming a Vision

- 2: 1959-1965 The Little Carib Theatre Workshop

- Part II. The Great Years (West Indian Style) 1966-1976

- 3: 1966 The Basement Theatre; The First Season

- 4: 1967 Dream on Monkey Mountain in Canada; The First Tours

- 5: 1968 Dream on Monkey Mountain; Henri Christophe; Homeless Again; The Five-Island Tour

- 6: 1969 Dream in Connecticut and for NBC

- 7: 1970 A New Ti-Jean; Black Power; Aquarius IV

- 8: 1971 Ti-Jean and Dream in Jamaica; In A Fine Castle

- 9: 1972 Ti-Jean in Central Park; Astor Johnson; Theatre Fifteen; Pieces One

- 10: 1973 The Second Season; Franklin; The Charlatan

- 11: 1974 An American Charlatan; A New Dream; A West Indian The Joker of Seville

- 12: 1975 The Joker Revised and on Tour

- 13: 1976 O Babylon!; Carifesta; TTW Dance Company; Walcott's Resignation

- Part III. Separation and Reconciliation 1977-1993

- 14: 1977-1983 The trinidad Theatre Workshop and Dance Company

- 15: Walcott 1977-1981 Pantomime; Remembrance; Marie Laveau

- 16: Walcott 1982-1983 The Last Carnival; A Branch of the Blue Nile

- 17: Walcott 1984-1990 Haytian Earth; Another New Dream; Another Branch; Another Franklin

- 18: 1984-1993 The Trinidad Theatre Workshop; 'Let Resurrection Come!'

- Theatre Calendar

- Select Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce King has held professorships or distinguished visiting professorships at Ibadan, Lagos, Stirling, Windsor (Canada), Canterbury (NZ), Ben Gurion (Israel), Paris III, Paris VII, and North Alabama. He is author of Three Indian Poets (OUP New Delhi, 1991); The New English Literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World (Macmillan, and St Martin's Press NY, 1980); Literatures of the World in English (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974); and series editor of English Dramatists (Macmillan - 14 books); and Modern Dramatists (Macmillan, Grove Press and St Martin's Press, NY).