Trinidad & Tobago s Carnival is reimagined through a Theatre of Carnival bringing some of its most colourful traditional Mas characters to life on the stage. Come see Jab Molassie, Jab Jab, Midnight Robber, Pierrot Grenade and Jamette spout Shakespeare and sing calypsos as they wreak havoc on the world in this post-colonial post-modern satirical comedy that defines its own theatrical genre.
Produced by Louris Martin Lee-Sing for Brown Cotton Theatre, arm of the not-for-profit NGO Brown Cotton Outreach (BCO), Play Mas is an original script written by Wayne Lee-Sing and National Theatre Icon Ellen O Malley Camps who directed the staged play. The show is based on Camps own original concept of a Theatre of Carnival as a pillar of her own Camps Carnival Theatre Technique (CCTT).
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The Revenge of King Jab Jab returns The cast of Revenge of King Jab Jab onstage. - Courtesy Saul Ramlal
THE Revenge of King Jab Jab – Play Mas with Shakespeare, produced by Louris Lee-Sing, is a socio-political satire that stars Carnival characters as the main protagonists.
King Jab Jab and his minions – Jab Molassie, Midnight Robber, Pierrot Grenade, Jamette and Sweeper – are plotting world domination through populism and worldwide dictatorship, part of which includes destroying women’s rights.
However, Baby Doll has heard about the fiendish plans to install dictatorship and to destroy democracy being hatched by the devils and other Carnival characters. And she is angry.
King Jab Jab comes to Little Carib Theatre
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Paula Hamilton-Smith will portray the Midnight Robber in Brown Cotton Outreach s The Revenge of King Jab Jab on February 6 and 7 at the Little Carib Theatre in Woodbrook. - Photo courtesy Brown Cotton Outreach
Not-for-profit NGO Brown Cotton Outreach’s (BCO) presentation of The Revenge of King Jab Jab promises to deliver a Carnival theatre social satire on February 6 and 7.
The NGO will partner with the Little Carib Theatre and WACK90.1 to bring the theatre to live and virtual audiences.
In the play, King Jab and his cohorts from the Land of Mamaguy play mas with the Shakespearean tradition as they replace democracy with dictatorship by devising the most dastardly and ridiculous plans to create a new and improved Hell-On-Earth.