https://padlet.com/thenr035/68hh56wehvia3k8w Playwright as a form of literature and language document the influences of colonialism en-us 2022-06-18 20:15:26 UTC 2022-06-18 20:34:10 UTC hello@padlet.com thenr035 https://padlet.com/thenr035/68hh56wehvia3k8w/wish/2224678739 “Stafford Ashani’s Masqueraders was the first play to be written, directed and produced by a Rastafari playwright with “a cast of mainly dreadlocked actors.” She argues that such an act of cultural defiance at that time defined a Black diasporic aesthetic that was both Caribbean and post-colonial, drawing on plantation masquerade to explore power struggles among the colonized as well as portraying the sadism inherent in the colonial spectatorship… Written in the full range of Jamaican language—a combination of West African and English—the play establishes this form of Jamaican English as a legitimate language”]]> 2022-06-18 20:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/thenr035/68hh56wehvia3k8w/wish/2224678739 thenr035 https://padlet.com/thenr035/68hh56wehvia3k8w/wish/2224679297 “As with other Jambiz productions, Windscream Posse uses a comedic vehicle to shine the spotlight on a societal ill, without seeking to trivialise the situation. The play looks at child abuse, and Brown does so through the lens of a set of runaway children who roam the streets of Kingston to escape unbearable abuse, whilst making an honest hustle to survive by wiping windscreens.”]]> 2022-06-18 20:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/thenr035/68hh56wehvia3k8w/wish/2224679297 thenr035 https://padlet.com/thenr035/68hh56wehvia3k8w/wish/2224679655 “The play is an example of Caribbean ‘yard theatre’, a form of realistic drama that popped up in the region after World War II. The productions are set in working-class tenement yards, though when Trinidadian playwright Marina Omowale Maxwell worked in Jamaica in the 1960s, she went a step further and actually staged some plays in backyards.” (https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/entertainment/20190125/56-east-avenue-lively-loose-and-laughter-filled)]]> 2022-06-18 20:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/thenr035/68hh56wehvia3k8w/wish/2224679655