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An Echo In The Bone By Dennis Scott Upgrade Your BrowserOverview Set in Jamaica in 1837, An Echo In The Bone was a non-naturalistic play written by Dennis Scott which explores the history of Black people and their oppression. The play starts with a Nine Night ceremony for the disappearance and assumed death of its central yet absent character, Crew, which coincides with the death of a white slavemaster, Maas Charlie. The collective hope is that Crew will return on the ninth night. An Echo In The Bone By Dennis Scott Series Of FlashbacksIn the play, Scott impels his characters to re-enact their history and the role played by slavery; taking them on a slave ship, to an auction, and through a series of flashbacks that awake a long and deep echo in the bone. Echo in the Bone was Talawas second production in 1986 and the plays UK premiere. Using stream-of-consciousness, symbolic representation and realism, the production interrogated Black white relationships in a context where racism and injustice underpin the cultural and economic exploitation of Black people. These devices enabled links between historical events and subjective fictionalisation to depict the unseen and silenced, just as much as the seen and heard. The device of the Nine Night and the journeys it presented, served as a warning to contemporary audiences that their past experiences, present events and future occurrences might not be reversed, but could be understood and overcome by working together. At the heart of An Echo In The Bone was Scotts masterful play on Santayanas warning that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it Caribbean Times (Laurel B. Ince) July 14th 1986 This is a masterful production in which direction, stagecraft, and music are skilfully executed. CAST Joanne Campbell - Brigit Kwabena Manso - Dreamboat Gary McDonald - Jacko Faith Tingle - Lally Mona Hammond - Madam Love Allister Bain - P Ellen Thomas - Rachel Lenny Algernon Edwards - Rattler Leo Wringer - Sonson Malcolm Frederick - Stone CREATIVES Yvonne Brewster - Director. He had a distinguished career as a poet, playwright, actor (he was Lester Tibideaux in the Cosby Show), as a dancer in the Jamaican National Dance Theatre, as Editor of Caribbean Quarterly and as the Director of the Jamaica School of Drama, and visiting Associate Professor of Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. His first collection, Uncle Time (1973) was one of the first to establish the serious use of Creole dialects in lyric poetry, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry. His plays include Terminus, Dog, and An Echo in the Bone and his work is acknowledged as one of the major influences on the direction of theatre in the Caribbean and beyond. Email ContactMap Support us Talawa Newsletter Privacy Policy Twitter Facebook Instagram Pinterest Flickr Talawa Theatre Company, Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 1DG Registered Charity No 327362 Registered Company No 2005971 VAT Registration No 446 1050 78 Design: Spy Studio This site requires cookies to operate, please read our Privacy Cookie Policy Accept continue Close.
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