Productions
The Tempest
Shakespeare’s classic play, dramaturged for a modern Bahamian setting by College of The Bahamas students under the guidance of Nicolette Bethel. Professional Bahamian stage actors Craig Pinder (Prospero) and Dana Ferguson (Ariel) head a diverse cast, and the production is co-directed by Pinder, whose career in the UK includes lead roles in Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables and several turns in Royal Shakespeare Company productions, and by Trinidadian actress and director Patti-Anne Ali, whose resume includes a supporting role in Merchant-Ivory’s The Mystic Masseur, and numerous acting and directing credits in her native Trinidad and in New York.
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Music of The Bahamas
Music of The Bahamas is an uplifting and educational examination of the development of indigenous Bahamian music from slavery up to the mid-twentieth century.
Music of The Bahamas was originally conceived and written by Nicolette Bethel and Philip A. Burrows for presentation at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, adapted from E. Clement Bethel’s M.A. thesis on the place of music in Bahamian life and culture, and has appeared in Nassau and Scotland to critical and popular acclaim.
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Love in Two Acts
Track Road Theatre reprises its evening of two one-act plays about love for Shakespeare in Paradise. Love in Two Acts premiered in Nassau in February 2009.
The first play, Alfred Sutro‘s The Open Door, is an intimate story of impossible love. The second, The Bear, is another love story of sorts, this one by Anton Chekhov, the great Russian playwright and short story writer.
Adapted by director Matthew Kelly for a Bahamian setting and audience.
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One White One Black
This play from the Cayman Islands focusses on two ‘have been’ artists – a musician and a writer once proud of their creativity – who have lost their dream of greatness. They’ve both failed in their respective marriages. Their only way to self re-discovery is by a purging of mind and body via a torturous route.
In this taut and moving work by one of the region’s finest playwrights the two men, in an imaginative and emotional journey of role-play, break the boundaries of stereotypes and emerge to discover a more accurate understanding of life, love and friendship.
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Zora
Zora tells the story of African-American folklorist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston, whose work in Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean during the 1920s won her widespread acclaim.
Kim Brockington, stage and film actress, is excited to present her one-woman show Zora to Bahamian audiences.
Fresh from a critically-acclaimed performance at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem North Carolina, Kim looks forward to bringing the play to Nassau.
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Caribbean Voices
A veritable Jack of all trades, Ken Corsbie is the authentic and complete Caribbean storyteller, standup comic, poetry performer, workshop leader, teller of folk tales, literary and personal stories. He brings the sound, the sun and the songs of the islands. He brings the rivers of the rainforest; he brings the rhymes and rhythms; he brings the voices and variety of the Caribbean – the textures and sounds of the islands mixed with those of North America.Ken’s varied and versatile repertoire crosses through Caribbean folk and literary tales, “performance” poetry, satirical and humorous anecdotes, personal stories of growing up, living in and leaving the Caribbean, arriving and becoming an American. He tells them all with “stereotypical” (his words) West Indian wit and flair.
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Light
Light, written and directed by Deon Simms, explores the forces that lead young Bahamian men into situations over which they have no control.
Light comes to Shakespeare in Paradise for an exclusive engagement as part of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s National Youth Month celebrations.Thanks to the Ministry’s involvement, Track Road Theatre will produce Light for an audience of youth, who, we hope, will be inspired by the play to examine their own realities in a positive and productive way.
