Remembrance and Pantomime: A Play
Sep 2014 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Two Compelling Plays from Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Exploring Identity, Culture, and Power Dynamics in the Caribbean
This collection features two plays by St. Lucian poet and Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott. In Remembrance, an eloquent retired teacher grapples with his love for British culture amidst the evolution of his family and community in newly independent Trinidad. "A lyrical, audience-pleasing work" (Variety), "Mr. Walcott is a poet, and his writing is of a quality we seldom hear in the theatre" (The New Yorker).
Pantomime, set in Tobago, is a witty, fast-paced comedy exploring master-servant relationships when an English hotel owner suggests he and his black handyman create a satirical Robinson Crusoe performance. "A brilliantly extended set of variations on the master-and-servant relationship" (The Times), the play showcases "gentle wit, immaculately placed irony" (New Statesman) and "dazzling theatrical virtuosity" (Financial Times).
This collection features two plays by St. Lucian poet and Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott. In Remembrance, an eloquent retired teacher grapples with his love for British culture amidst the evolution of his family and community in newly independent Trinidad. "A lyrical, audience-pleasing work" (Variety), "Mr. Walcott is a poet, and his writing is of a quality we seldom hear in the theatre" (The New Yorker).
Pantomime, set in Tobago, is a witty, fast-paced comedy exploring master-servant relationships when an English hotel owner suggests he and his black handyman create a satirical Robinson Crusoe performance. "A brilliantly extended set of variations on the master-and-servant relationship" (The Times), the play showcases "gentle wit, immaculately placed irony" (New Statesman) and "dazzling theatrical virtuosity" (Financial Times).
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Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, Omeros (1990); a collection of verse, The Bounty (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem Tiepolo's Hound (2000). His numerous plays include The Haitian Trilogy (2001) and Walker and The Ghost Dance (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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