DEREK WALCOTT (1930 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Derek Walcott
Batai |
| 1st Produced: | Port-of-Spain | 1965 | ||
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| Genre: | Carnival Show | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Beef, No Chicken |
| 1st Produced: | Little Carib Theatre, Port of Spain, Trinidad | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Farrar Straus, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: corruption of a small town in a hurry to catch up with the industrialisation that a new highway will bring | ||||
Branch of the Blue Nile, A |
| 1st Produced: | Stage One, Barbados | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Farrar Straus, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: conflict among members of a small theatre company in contemporary Port-of-Spain | ||||
Capeman, The |
| 1st Produced: | Marquis Theater, New York | 1998 | ||
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Concept album: Warner Brothers | 1997 | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: by Derek Walcott; Music and lyrics by Paul Simon | ||||
Synopsis: Based on a true story of Salvador Agron a sixteen year old Puerto Rican gang member of the "Vampires" sentenced to death for gang murders | ||||
Charlatan, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre for Now, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Calif | 1954 | ||
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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 | |||
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Notes: Music by Gail McDermot | ||||
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Crossroads |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1954 | ||
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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 | |||
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Cry For a Leader |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1950 | ||
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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 | |||
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Notes: written with Ron Short | ||||
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Dream of Monkey Mountain |
| 1st Produced: | Central Library Theatre, Toronto | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays", Farrar Straus, New York | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | Mythic Drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 7 BM, 1 WF, dancer, singer, M chorus, drummers, extras | |||
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Synopsis: Black man in jail dreams of a white woman mistress, but the truth must be faced: the mistress is really the suppressed desires of the Black people for white culture. A ritualized play set in the West Indies, combining fantasy, voodoo, and poetry to explore the deeper, unconscious sources of identity, the nature of freedom | ||||
Drums and Colours |
| 1st Produced: | Port-of-Spain | 1958 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 7, no 1 and 2", Mona | 1961 | ||
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Franklin: A Tale Of the Islands |
| 1st Produced: | Georgetown, Guyana | 1969 | ||
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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 | |||
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Golden Lions, The |
| 1st Produced: | Mona | 1956 | ||
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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 | |||
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Harry Dernier |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1952 | ||
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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 | |||
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Henri Christophe |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1950 | ||
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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 | |||
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In a Fine Castle |
| 1st Produced: | Mona | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | excerpt as Conscience of a Revolutionary published in "Express", Port-of-Spain, 24 October | 1971 | ||
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Notes: New Theater for Now, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972 | ||||
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Ione |
| 1st Produced: | Kingston | 1957 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | University College of the West Indies Extra-Mural Department, Mona | 1957 | ||
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Isle Is Full of Noises, The |
| 1st Produced: | Hartford, Connecticut | 1982 | ||
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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 | |||
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Joker of Seville, The |
| 1st Produced: | Port-of-Spain | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Tirso de Molina. Music by Galt MacDermot | ||||
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Jourmard; or, A Comedy till the Last Minute |
| 1st Produced: | St. Lucia | 1959 | ||
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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 | |||
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Last Carnival, The |
| 1st Produced: | Government Training Center, port of Spain, Trinidad | 1982 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Farrar Straus, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: colonial life style of a French Creole family faced with the emergence of the black power movement | ||||
Life and Times of J. Walter Smintheus, The |
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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 | |||
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Malcochon; or, The Six In the Rain |
| 1st Produced: | St. Lucia Arts Guild, WI | 1959 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays", Farrar Straus, New York | 1970 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Mythic Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 5 BM, 1 BF, singers, musicians, chorus | |||
Notes: new version of 'In a Fine Castle' | ||||
Synopsis: . A metaphorical drama set on a timeless and isolated island (West Indies) during the rainy season. Relates the reappearance of the mythic hero Chantal, "the Tiger who un-ravels lies and makes me account for their sins and dreams." | ||||
Marie Laveau |
| 1st Produced: | St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | excerpts in "Trinidad and Tobago review", Tunapuna, Christmas | 1979 | ||
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Notes: music by Galt MacDermot | ||||
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O Babylon! |
| 1st Produced: | Port-of-Spain | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York | 1978 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: music by Galt MacDermot | ||||
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Odyssey, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: from epic by Homer | ||||
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Paolo and Francesca |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1951 | ||
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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 | |||
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Notes: aka Senza Alcun Sospetto | ||||
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Price of Mercy, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1951 | ||
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Remembrance |
| 1st Produced: | St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands | 1977 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
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Robin and Andrea |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1950 | ||
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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 | |||
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Sea at Dauphin, The |
| 1st Produced: | Errol Hill, Whitehall Players | 1954 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays", Farrar Straus, New York | 1970 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Mythic Drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 5 BM, 1 BB, 1 BF | |||
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Synopsis: The sea is a metaphor in this play as two fishermen confront their lives and regeneration on a West Indian island. | ||||
Six In The Rain |
| 1st Produced: | 1960 | |||
| Company: | New Day Theatre Company | |||
| 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: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: double bill with Sea at Dauphin | ||||
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Three Assassins |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1951 | ||
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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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Ti-Jean and His Brothers |
| 1st Produced: | Little Carib Theatre, Port of Spain, Trinidad, WI | 1958 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays", Farrar Straus, New York | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | Fable with music | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: A parable of three sons and how each fares with the devil, especially Ti-Jean, "a fool like all heroes," who passed through the tangled opinions of this life, loosening the rotting faggots of knowledge from old men to bear them safely on his shoulder | ||||
To Die for Granada |
| 1st Produced: | Cleveland, Ohio | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | 1986 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Viva Detroit |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Wine of the Country, The |
| 1st Produced: | Mona | 1956 | ||
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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 | |||
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