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Can You Keep a Secret? 1999

Can You Keep a Secret?

By Winsome Pinnock

This tender and moving play explores the shocking murder of a young Black man (Derek) and it’s...

Cast Size: 20

Capeman, The: A Musical 1999

Capeman, The: A Musical

By Derek Walcott

Based on a true story of Salvador Agron, a sixteen year old Puerto Rican gang member of the “V...

Cast Size: Unknown

Carnival Messiah 1999

Carnival Messiah

By Geraldine Connor

Inspired by Handel’s celebration of the story of Christ, Carnival Messiah uses the colourful,...

Cast Size: 17

Coups and Calypsos 1999

Coups and Calypsos

By M NourbeSe Philip

Elvira is African. Rohan is Indian. They are both Trinidadian. They live in London but are stranded...

Cast Size: 3

Happy Birthday Mister Deka D 1999

Happy Birthday Mister Deka D

By Biyi Bandele

Mister Deka D celebrates his birthday in a place where time has stood still. A man and a woman come...

Cast Size: 3

Hold On 1999

Hold On

By Kwame Kwei-Armah

Hold On tells the story of the egotistical chauvinist Rufus Collins trying to put on a sixties soul...

Cast Size: 5

Hyacinth Blue 1999

Hyacinth Blue

By Kara Miller

Hyacinth Blue tells the stories of Patience, Abina and Charlotte, three women in prison. As Abina do...

Cast Size: 3

Joebell and America 1999

Joebell and America

By Earl Lovelace

Joebell believes he has seen too much hell in Trinidad and decides to go to America.

Cast Size: Unknown

Lift Off 1999

Lift Off

By Roy Williams

When old time school friends Mal and Tone begin to break their lifelong friendship, bitter prejudice...

Cast Size: 6

Oroonoko 1999

Oroonoko

By Biyi Bandele

In 1688 the British writer and playwright Aphra Behn published her novella, Oroonoko, or the Royal S...

Cast Size: 14