Revo
By Shango Baku
Year staged: 1986
Opening night: 15/10/1986
Theatre Company: Umoja Theatre Company
Staged in: Battersea Arts Centre
Cast Size: 8
Synopsis
The Finance Minister has just been shot by his neighbour, a Comrade Leader, who claims it was an accident. With rising hysteria the Comrade Leader and his ministers plot a cover-up. The plan is solid. Use the ultimate hallucinogenic on Rasta, who they spring from jail where he languishes for a murder he didn’t commit, and so is readily available take the blame for another murder he didn’t commit. The drug might already have sent the Comrade Leader’s bodyguard mad, also by accident. But Marlene, the Finance Minister’s wife, saw the shooting. Given her affair with the Comrade Leader – might she now make her move on him and become his First Lady? And what of the recent bombs, hidden in the minister’s guava jelly and his toilet? Has the current revolutionary government now become bourgeois, making a new Revo necessary, and if so, who is sane and who is mad?
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Revo
Publisher: Tunapuna: Eastern Specialist Printers
Year published: 1984
Original Cast
Steve McFarlane
Abbey / Rebel
Morel Bernard
Marlene Brown
Sylvester Williams
Comrade Leader
Robert Phillips
Public Info Man
Anthony Wellington
Attorney General
Andrew Baguley
Ambassador
Lenny Algernon Edwards
Chief of Police / Soldier
Wilbert Jawhar Johnson
Rasta / Drum
Production Team
A.J Simon
Director
Paul Mars
Lighting
Marjoke Henrichs
Designer