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TONY HALL (1948 - ) |
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Nationality: Citizen of Trinidad and Tobago Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Tony Hall |
Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Indiana State University | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Lordstreet Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56074 | |||
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Genre: | Calypso Musical Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | A chorus of dancers and singers and a calypso orchestra | |||||
Notes: | with lyrics and music by David Rudder | |||||
Synopsis: | The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club was an actual bar and hangout in Trinidad that burnt down under mysterious circumstances. This calypso musical [Blues Kaiso in Jouvay Opera], which had its world premiere at Indiana State University's Summer Stage 2004, provides some clues. It is a "whodunit" musical but it also is an unconventional love story sparking a dangerous triangle and an attempt to protect a mysterious fugitive. Taking place on the eve of Trinidad's world-famous carnival, the musical introduces us to the Club's salty and colorful misfits viewed in the glow of carnivalesque illusion. Lucky Diamond is a place where love, tempers and joyous music can ignite at any moment. It is a place where the reigning patriarch Old Patience aka Mista Nation, attempts to reform the sinners that hang out in the Club with a cleansing fire born of his religious zeal. The music, composed by the calypso/soca star David Rudder, makes you stand and dance and marvel at a world that is the colorful yet tragic Caribbean in miniature, one that is as strong and beautiful as it is fragile and vulnerable. | |||||
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Flag Woman | ||
| 1st Produced: | W.A.C.K 90.1 FM, San Fernando, Trinidad, W.I. | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Lordstreet Theatre Company and Engine Room Recording and Production | |||||
| 1st Published: | AuthorHouse, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71784 | |||
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Genre: | radio drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | a precussionist | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Blind Miss B, an aging "Flag Woman", reluctantly faces her demons on the night before the carnival. | |||||
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Jean and Dinah Who Have Been Locked Away in a World Famous Calypso Since 1956 Speak Their Minds Publicly | ||
| 1st Produced: | Planteurs Cocktail Lounge & Art Gallery, St Vincent Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Lordstreet Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Authorhouse, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56147 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 percussionist | |||||
Notes: | Goodwin Theatre, Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. April 17th, 1998 | |||||
Synopsis: | This play brings us up to date with the lives of Jean and Dinah straight out of The Mighty Sparrow's calypso, Yankees Gone. Dinah is old, ill, dying. It is Carnival Monday, jouvay morning, the start of the carnival. Jean comes to rally her for one more jouvay morning jump up with the steelband, to play mas (masquerade), to play sailor. Dinah won't go. Jean won't leave her. Time reels back: they see themselves, their choices and encounters of the past 40 years. Dinah dies, but she and Jean know the truth about the incident that separated them. | |||||
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Twilight Cafe [The Last Breakfast] | ||
| 1st Produced: | Central Bank Auditorium, Port of Spain, Trinidad | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Lordstreet Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Authorhouse, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67984 | |||
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Genre: | Tragi-comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | North American premiere produced by Theatre Archipelago at The Great Hall Downstairs (Formerly The Theatre Centre), Toronto, Ontario, Canada from May 16th to May 27th 2007 | |||||
Synopsis: | In this powerful drama, we are served on a platter the lives of one man and one woman as they recall their past. Sarah is estranged from Stanley and now lives in New York. Upon returning to her island for a vacation, she is invited to her ex-husband's new business venture, Twilight Cafe. As the visit unfolds, memories become the sum total of their past while cultural manifestations burst through, riding roughshod on the behavior of Sarah and Stanley. "It is Pinter meeting Strindberg in contemporary Trinidad," said Theatre Archipelago Director, Rhoma Spencer. "And for the first time I am able to present a piece of theatre that truly reflects Caribbean theatre both in form and content. On a literal level, the play is a discourse on the age old debate of woman as a dependent being and man's preoccupation with taking care of woman. Once this equation is disturbed, we see man's inability to cope manifest itself". | |||||
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