Music, Theatre and Dance, People, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 46 (November/December 2000)
Dominique Le Gendre — Shakespeare and me
The English have been busy making a new recording other most famous playwright, William Shakespeare – all 38 of his plays....
Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 70 (November/December 2004)
Bim, Bim, Sink or Swim…
The poster summarised the theme: One man’s struggle to come to terms with the society that has alienated him. Released in 1974, Bim was...
Culture, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 67 (May/June 2004)
Isaiah James Boodhoo: Artist & Gentleman
In the foreword to his last one-man show, in 2002, Isaiah Boodhoo made this statement about his work: “Painting, for me is a compulsive...
Culture, Film and Television, People, Martinique
By Bruce Paddington ● Caribbean Innovation (15 May 2020), Issue 1 (Spring 1992)
Euzhan Palcy: Making Waves
Euzhan Palcy, thirty-four, was the first black woman to direct a major Hollywood studio film: A Dry White Season, starring Donald...
Culture, Film and Television, Arts
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 4 (Winter 1992)
Where have all the Caribbean movies gone?
The Caribbean is often seen as a string of exotic islands with palm-fringed beaches, populated by happy calypso-singing natives waiting to...
Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 6 (Summer 1993)
Isaiah James Boodhoo: Poet of the Plains
At sixty, Isaiah James Boodhoo is enjoying one of his most successful periods as an artist. At his last major exhibition, all the paintings...
Culture, Literature, People, Guyana
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 13 (Spring 1995)
Martin Carter: The Poems Man
Martin Carter never left Guyana. He is one of the few Caribbean artists to endure the decay of a beloved society without seeking exile. He...
Culture, Film and Television, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Bruce Paddington ● Issue 36 (March/April 1999)
Frances Anne Solomon: Beating the System
When she directed Peggy Su in 1996, Frances-Anne Solomon became one of the few Trinidadians to have directed or produced a feature film....