Mixed Company
Three Early Jamaican Plays| By: | null |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9781849432160 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781849436342 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In 2012 Jamaica celebrates the 50th anniversary of Independence. Mixed Company is a collection of three of the finest early Jamaican theatrical works, written for the most part before the dawn of Independence.
Written in 1954 (The Creatures by Cicely Waite-Smith), 1960 (Bedward by Louis Marriott) and 1970 (Maskarade by Sylvia Wynter), the plays are examples of works conceived with a Jamaican audience in mind, a Jamaican audience conscious of the melting pot in which it lived. Each offers a unique perspective on the spirit of a people who held on to traditional beliefs and customs in the face of colonial opprobrium as the populace struggled to gain its political, social and cultural independence.
Yvonne Brewster talks to Woman's Hour about Jamaican indpendence