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Dance Bongo

By Errol Hill

Year staged: 1965

Cast Size: Unknown

Synopsis

A fantasy in one act. A stranger arrives to a village settlement looking for a dead or dying man. They claim they do not know exactly who they seek, but they plan to dance the bongo at their wake. The native villagers are confused by this, saying they dance at parties and carnivals but never at wakes. The arrival of Jeremy Jordan, the proclaimed greatest bongo dancer in the land, creates competition which the stranger does not entertain, protesting that they are there to dance at the sign of death. However, with no sign of death immediately clear, drama ensues as the villages try to get the stranger to dance. 

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Dance Bongo

Publisher: Longman Caribbean

Year published: 1972

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