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Derek Walcott & West Indian Drama: Not Only a Playwright But a Company the Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993

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Derek Walcott & West Indian Drama: Not Only a Playwright But a Company the Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993 - King, Bruce
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Written at Derek Walcott's suggestion, and based on interviews with the playwright, this is the first detailed study of a post-colonial theatre company and the problems of creating "serious" theatre in the former British colonies. The book shows how the Nobel Prize winner strove to create a world class theatre ensemble in the West Indies--a Trinidadian Brecht Berliner ensemble--and traces his life and career in West Indian theatre and the history of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. A major contribution to West Indian history ...

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Derek Walcott & West Indian Drama: Not Only a Playwright But a Company the Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993 1997, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198184645

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