RICHARD RAGOOBARSINGH (1964 - )
| Nationality: | Trinidan and Tobagian |
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Plays by Richard Ragoobarsingh
Breaking of Lord Harris, The |
| 1st Produced: | Trinidad and Tobago | 1998 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comic/drama | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Nominated for several Cacique Theater Awards in Trinidad and Tobago. Finalist for Best Original Script. Winner Best Actor, Best Costume design.Screenplay has also been written. Best Actor, Best Costume Design, Best Sound design (Finalist Best Original Script) | ||||
Synopsis: A drag queen takes in a young boy who has run away from home despite objections from his best friend and his brother. The very religous father pursues his son and gets him back and the drag queen "Marlene" is arrested since it turns out the boy has been sexually assaulted. But who has done it? The drag queen is exonerated but meets once again with the boy in the park where they first met and all is revealed in a thrilling climax where the park is surrounded by religious fanatics. | ||||
"Lucky |
| 1st Produced: | Trinidad and Tobago | 2000 |
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| 1st Published: | - | - |
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |
Notes: also called Lotto Madness"" also called ""Sex, Lies and Money"" written 2000. Nominated for several awards including Best Original Script. Won Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound Design, Best Comedic Production. Best Supporting Actress, Best Sound Design, Best Comedic Production
(Finalist Best Original Script) | ||
Synopsis: A wife gets word through rumor that her husband has won the Lotto. He denies it and thereafter a game of cat and mouse begins leading to the hiring of a somewhat eccentric private investigator. What he finds out leads to marital crisis and twists that leaves an audience gasping. Mix in an inquisitive maid and the confusion leads to everyone becoming obsessed with whether the winning ticket really exists and who has it. Surprise ending. |
Mary Could Dance |
| 1st Produced: | Trinidad and Tobago | 1997 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comic/drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Winner of 10 of 15 Cacique Theater Awards in Trinidad. National record to date. Play has been performed in Trinidad and Tobago every year to date. Also performed in other Caribbean islands such as St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada. A version was done in Ireland. Screenplay version has also been written. Best Original Script/Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress/Best Supporting Actor/Best . Director/Best Set Design/Best Lighting/Best Choreography in a play/Best Sound design/Best Play | ||||
Synopsis: A young girl has become a stripper/prostitute in city after being a promising folk dancer of her small town. Her first and true love returns from the United States where he had migrated with his family 11 years earlier. His entry into her life now and the club where she works provides a catalyst for sometimes volatile examination of their respective lives and her close friends in her 'new life'. She gets her fairy tale in the end after several obstacles, even though it turns out to be shortlived. | ||||
One Night Stand |
| 1st Produced: | Trinidad and Tobago | 2002 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comic/drama | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Nominated for several Cacique Theater Awards in Trinidad and Tobago. Winner Best Original Script and Best Actress. Best Original Script, Best Actress, Best Comedic Production | ||||
Synopsis: A professional woman attending her younger sister's wedding invites one of the male dancers back to her apartment for a private job. She wants sex he doesn't. A turbulent and sometimes violent night leads to startling revelations about themselves. Their connection seems long lasting despite obstacles and progresses to a certain degree of stability and love and is then interrupted. | ||||
Stranger, The |
| 1st Produced: | Trinidad and Tobago | 2004 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Psychological Thriller/Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Nominated for several awards including Best Original Script, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Director. | ||||
Synopsis: A retired school principal and his daughter assist a stranger one stormy night in rural Trinidad. He enters their house and thereafter follows a terrifying night that reveals certain startling truths for all the characters. They eventually turn the tables on him or have they. | ||||