Carnival Messiah
I thought I was in heaven when I heard the Marionettes Chorale sing Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, accompanied by the Neal and Massy...
Neila Ebanks: no boundaries
Neila Ebanks’s forearm is a clue to her personality. It bears the tattooed words “integrity is freedom,” an open reminder of a...
Word of mouth (November/ December 2013)
City of lights Angelo Bissessarsingh recounts the sights and sounds of Trinidad’s Divali Nagar, an annual grand fair in the weeks before...
Nicolette Bethel: “In the theatre, you never know what’s gonna happen”
Theatre was all around me when I was growing up. Every place you went — church, school — had a performance component. My mother Keva...
Taking flight: Bird of Night
There is a sketch next to Trinidadian Dominique Le Gendre’s Bird of Night programme note which captures graphically her own complex...
Heather Headley: a star with her feet on the ground
In 2000, news spread about a Trinidad-born actress making waves on Broadway. Her command of her emotions made you sure that her onstage...
Rex Nettleford: a king among men
An ordinary man of extraordinary accomplishments – that was Rex Nettleford. An extraordinary man of ordinary life and circumstances –...
Errol Jones: a gentleman and a player
Errol Jones possessed two qualities that are unusual in an actor, said Eunice Alleyne: greatness and humility. Other tributes bore out what...
