Sandwiched between the austere facade of "The Ancient Order of Foresters" and a music shop, this tiny gem of a theater literally sparkles in a funky carnival.
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Morningstar Angeline, Andrew Martin and Billy Merasty star in The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw, screening at 6:30 p.m. May 19, 2021, during the Duluth Superior Film Festival s Monthly Indigenous Film Series. (Circle Blue Entertainment)
Mitzi Bearclaw’s got plans. She’s headed for fashion school, designing hats that’ll save the world and collaborating with her beau. And, it’s her birthday to boot.
That all comes to a halt when her father asks for help caring for her ailing and angry mother.
Mitzi struggles with the question of a generation how to balance ambition with family duty as she begrudgingly boards a boat taxi headed for her island reservation.
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‘Yuh tallawah – that means you’re small but you’re strong’ … Yvonne Brewster directing in 1991. Photograph: Richard Hubert Smith
‘Yuh tallawah – that means you’re small but you’re strong’ … Yvonne Brewster directing in 1991. Photograph: Richard Hubert Smith
The co-founder of Talawa, Britain’s longest-running black theatre company, is a woman of many firsts, celebrated in a new book
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“Fantastic! Because all of us lickkle, and all of us tallawah, and all of us are women,” said Jamaican actor Mona Hammond when Yvonne Brewster suggested a name for her theatre company. Hammond, who had helped found the company, wanted a Jamaican name. Brewster consulted a dictionary on the English spoken in Jamaica, reading the book backwards. “‘Zuzuwapp.’ Oh, that sounds nice. No, that’s giving too much ‘ethnicity’ to the company,” she recalls. “‘Tallawah.’ Sure – my mother always us