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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mixed Company: Three Early Jamaican Plays

Mixed Company: Three Early Jamaican Plays

Brewster, Yvonne

Paperback

Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights

Plays

ISBN10: 1849432163
ISBN13: 9781849432160
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 23 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

In 2012 Jamaica celebrates the 50th anniversary of Independence. Mixed Company is a collection of three of the finest early Jamaican theatrical works, written for the most part before the dawn of Independence.

Written in 1954 (The Creatures by Cicely Waite-Smith), 1960 (Bedward by Louis Marriott) and 1970 (Maskarade by Sylvia Wynter), the plays are examples of works conceived with a Jamaican audience in mind, a Jamaican audience conscious of the melting pot in which it lived. Each offers a unique perspective on the spirit of a people who held on to traditional beliefs and customs in the face of colonial opprobrium as the populace struggled to gain its political, social and cultural independence.

Yvonne Brewster talks to Woman's Hour about Jamaican indpendence

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