For the first time in history, all three finalists in the First Citizens National Poetry Slam are women. In first, second and third place respectively, were Alexandra Stewart, Shinique Saunders and 2018 defending champion Deneka Thomas. The clean sweep was even more remarkable considering that only five of the 15 finalists were women. The first … Continue reading
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New Plays get high marks (November 6, 2016)
The T&T New Play Festival, which ran from October 28 to 31, successfully achieved its aims of bringing theatre practitioners together and getting people to come out and support the Festival. This is according to one of the organizers, playwright Safa Niamat-Ali. The Festival consisted of three plays which had never been staged before: Miracle, … Continue reading
New Play Festival premieres next weekend (October 23, 2016)
The New Play Festival 2016, which will run October 28 to 30, is the brainchild of legendary T&T thespian Tony Hall. Hall said the Festival is one of the projects he conceived years ago when he resolved to stop complaining about what was not happening in theatre in T&T and do something instead. The Festival … Continue reading
What Don’t You F**king Get About Domestic Violence?
Yesterday evening, news broke that Rachael Sukhdeo dropped the domestic violence suit against her millionaire husband Sheron Sukhdeo, saying that they’ve since reconciled their issues. And, r… Source: What Don’t You F**king Get About Domestic Violence?
Communication in focus in “Choose Your Own Ending” play (July 10, 2016)
The play “To Light,” being presented on July 15 by production company the.art.IS, in association with ParentingTT promises to deliver a new experience to the theatre landscape of T&T. Founder Brendon O’Brien describes the production as participatory theatre, where the audience decides what the ending of the play will be. He said the play is … Continue reading
Hypervigilance vs. Underthinking
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Contemplating the ‘Gay Gang’
Originally posted on Activized:
Earlier this week in the Lovely twin-isle of Trinidad & Tobago, renowned local artist LeRoy Clarke connected the ‘prevalence’ of homosexuality to a rise in crime in the nation. He’s claiming that young people entering gangs are initiated through sodomy and respond in their lives using the gun as an extension…