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Anansi and the Strawberry Queen

By Manley Young

Year staged: 1974

Theatre Company: Dark and Light Theatre; 1970-

Staged in: Dark and Light Theatre

Cast Size: Unknown

Synopsis

A folk/rock-fairytale Christmas musical, it takes place, to quote the programme, ‘in and around Strawberry Palace in Strawberry Land in the Land of Fantasia’ and then ‘the Mongoose Territory and the Land of the Serpentine’. The story centres on Anansi, ‘the National folk-hero of Jamaica’, who is part-spider, part-man. The Anansi stories form an integral part of Jamaica’s cultural heritage around which the genre of Jamaican pantomime was built. This was the second Anansi pantomime that the Dark and Light Theatre Company produced.

Production Team

Norman Beaton

Director

Additional Materials

Link to Costume designs

Costume designs

Ref: TFP040

Future Histories - Black Performance and Carnival Archive

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