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Lament for Rastafari

By Edgar Nkosi White

Year staged: 1977

Opening night: 29/09/1977

Staged in: Keskidee Arts Centre

Cast Size: 5

Synopsis

A vast historical and geographical panorama of the trials of Rastafarian life. Set in Jamaica, New York and England, the play begins with the inhumanity of slavery and moves to the mid-twentieth century following the Rastafarian experience through poverty and hardship, discrimination and prostitution.

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Lament for Rastafari

Publisher: M. Boyars, London

Year published: 1983

Original Cast

Witty Forde

Barret

T Bone Wilson

Clayton and Father

Yvonne Gidden

La Puta

David Haynes

Lindsay

Imruh Caesar

Sandford

Production Team

Errol Lloyd

Designer

Rufus Collins

Director

Millie Kiarie

Stage Manager

Roylyn Cohen

Stage Director / Lighting

Additional Materials

Link to Typed Script

Typed Script

Ref: TTC/5/1/75

V&A Theatre and Performance Collection

Link to Programme

Programme

Ref: TFP048

Future Histories - Black Performance and Carnival Archive

Link to Press Review

Press Review

Ref: TFP048

Future Histories - Black Performance and Carnival Archive

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