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Jamaica s Rich Literary Legacy Is Finally Getting the Global Recognition It Deserves – Repeating Islands
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Share Jamaica’s Rich Literary Legacy Is Finally Getting the Global Recognition It Deserves When it comes to Jamaica s cultural legacy, music looms large, but the island also possesses a rich literary history that spans generations, and is now reaching an international audience. By Isis Semaj-Hall March 14, 2021
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Yvonne Brewster: I wasn t going to faff around the edges of the fringe
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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
Mbalamwezi players back together for a day or more
Friday February 26 2021
Youth group, Pillars of Kibera, performs a traditiona Giriama dance at the Kenya National Theatre. FILE PHOTO | NMG
By MARGARETTA WA GACHERU
Summary
Kenyan theatre, just like most aspects of the performing arts, came to a grinding halt over the past year when the Covid-19 pandemic locked down most folks in their private abodes.
Granted a few groups tried to meet over Zoom, but that never could compare to the ensemble experience of acting and working with others on stage.
But a significant sign that the art’s world is opening up in a remarkable way is the long-overdue reunion of the Mbalemwezi Players.
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