- Paperback: 426 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; Reprint edition (Oct 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0198184646
- ISBN-13: 978-0198184645
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.9 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 649 g
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#1,480,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #54 in Books > History > Americas > Caribbean & West Indies > Trinidad and Tobago
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From Library Journal
Nobel laureate poet and dramatist Walcott founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Walcott's plays, including Ti-Jean and His Brothers, Dream on Monkey Mountain, The Charlatan, and Haytian Earth, are widely acclaimed and have been produced throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. This book recounts the story of how Walcott was able to create this world-class theater company and inspire it with his creativity and energy, also offering a discussion of the ongoing support the company receives from the Rockefeller Foundation. A detailed and scholarly work, this title fills a gap in theater history and is most likely to be read by serious students and historians. Recommended for large academic collections.
Howard E. Miller, Alliance Blue Cross & Blue Shield Lib., St. Louis
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Howard E. Miller, Alliance Blue Cross & Blue Shield Lib., St. Louis
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
From the hardback: `The book is obviously the work of a meticulous fan.' Theatre Scotland
`the book is a mine of information...research for this book will be valued by thoughtful Caribbean theatre goers and theatre historians.' Sunday Guardian
`...pioneering book, which weaves theatre history and literary criticism together in a fresh and rewarding way' Caribbean Beat
`An important resource book... this is a very significant piece of work. The portrait of Walcott that emerges is complex and offers... fascinating insights into a great but often difficult man. In King, he has found a serious and careful chronicler, the court historian to the prince of Caribbean playwrights.' Elaine Savory, Research in African Literatures
`I imagine that Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama will prove an eye-opener to anyone who assumed that Caribbean theatre began and ended with Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. Bruce King's book reveals just how wide of the mark they were.' London Magazine
`This book is not the "academic study" one might expect. It combines thoroughness of research, an acute sense of the writer's intentions, great literary flair, with a refreshing disrespect for whatever is considered "politically correct"...a superb achievement...Bruce King compells us to re-evaluate our vision and grant him more attention as a playwright...an enthusiastic tribute to the often heroic will of Walcott and his actors.' Afram Newsletter no 41
this is a detailed study of a post-colonial Caribbean theatre company and the problems of creating 'serious' theatre in the former colonies. - Communaute Francaise, centre belge de l'IIT
`Substantial study ... Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point.' Planet
`substantial study...this book is essentially the story of a very particular theatre company as it grew up and evolved over four tempestuous decades on Trinidad...Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point...this is a superb book - scholarly, scrupulous, immensley detailed but also very readable...a major achievement.' Planet - the Welsh Internationalist
`the book is a mine of information...research for this book will be valued by thoughtful Caribbean theatre goers and theatre historians.' Sunday Guardian
`...pioneering book, which weaves theatre history and literary criticism together in a fresh and rewarding way' Caribbean Beat
`An important resource book... this is a very significant piece of work. The portrait of Walcott that emerges is complex and offers... fascinating insights into a great but often difficult man. In King, he has found a serious and careful chronicler, the court historian to the prince of Caribbean playwrights.' Elaine Savory, Research in African Literatures
`I imagine that Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama will prove an eye-opener to anyone who assumed that Caribbean theatre began and ended with Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. Bruce King's book reveals just how wide of the mark they were.' London Magazine
`This book is not the "academic study" one might expect. It combines thoroughness of research, an acute sense of the writer's intentions, great literary flair, with a refreshing disrespect for whatever is considered "politically correct"...a superb achievement...Bruce King compells us to re-evaluate our vision and grant him more attention as a playwright...an enthusiastic tribute to the often heroic will of Walcott and his actors.' Afram Newsletter no 41
this is a detailed study of a post-colonial Caribbean theatre company and the problems of creating 'serious' theatre in the former colonies. - Communaute Francaise, centre belge de l'IIT
`Substantial study ... Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point.' Planet
`substantial study...this book is essentially the story of a very particular theatre company as it grew up and evolved over four tempestuous decades on Trinidad...Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point...this is a superb book - scholarly, scrupulous, immensley detailed but also very readable...a major achievement.' Planet - the Welsh Internationalist
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