(I apologize for being a little late in highlighting this.)
In his review last month of a new Guyanese play, The Legend of The Silk Cotton Tree, which debuted during Carifesta, Andre Haynes writes:
The past haunts the present in The Legend of the Silk Cotton Tree, Guyana’s signal dramatic presentation which premiered on Friday evening, at the National Cultural Centre. Featuring a cast of stage veterans alongside new discoveries, the play enthralled a capacity crowd that was on hand to witness the rebirth of Guyanese theatre. The drama, an exploration of the role of Guyanese folklore in the shaping of the country’s history, is a new play written for Carifesta X. It is not a perfect beginning — in fact, far from it — but as the first brick in the new foundation of local drama it can be seen as a promising start. Read more here.
