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Playwrights Workshop Trinbago’s (PWT) Monthly Readers Theatre Series (MRTS), featured on the first Wednesday of every month, will be reading Tears That Fall, written by Garnet Lawrence, for the August 2019 instalment. The reading takes place this evening at the National Drama Association of T&T’s (NDATT) Studios, located at 97 Southern Main Road, Curepe, starting at 7 pm.
A Chřistian playwright, director and actor, Lawrence has been writing and directing plays since he was 18-years-old.
Born Trinidadian, bred Tobagonian, Lawrence has been writing and acting in his church plays since the age of 16, After graduating from the University of the West Indies with a first-class Honours BA in Theatre Arts and Literatures in English, he returned to Tobago, where he has been writing for secondary schools. Several of his plays have won awards at the Secondary Schools Drama Festival.
At present, Lawrence is a teacher at the Signal Hill Secondary School, where he continues to actively challenge himself and his students to address various social issues through the school’s drama club, SHAPE Up Productions.
Set in a crime-ridden community in Trinidad, Tears That Fall is an adaptation of Greek playwright Sophocles’ play, Ántigone. This adaptation, however, shifts the focus from the Antigone archetype to Melda, representative of the character of Creon. She is the mother of a wayward son who dies at the start of the play and she declares that no one from her family will be going to that son’s funeral. Her son defies her and their actions spiral into a face-off with her family, close friends and the whole community. This work forces the audience to question whether she was right and asks, how should mothers treat with their disobedient children?
Playwrights Workshop Trinbago (PWT) is inviting actors, playwrights, directors, producers and the general public to the reading to provide the playwright with feedback, to further develop his script.
The event will be held on August 7, at 7 pm, at the NDATT Studios, 97 Southern Main Road, Curepe. Admission is free.