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27th
Feburary 2010
See Double
Feature drama - Silent Scars & A Black Woman’s
Tale
Performed
last year and brought back by popular demand,
especially for International Women’s Week,
are two plays - one that will take you to the
brink of tears and the other that will make
you titter in delight. These will be staged
at the National Cultural Centre on 6th and 7th
March at 8:00pm. Tickets can be bought at Sunshine
Bookstore, CSA Centre, from members of the cast
or at the door for $30:00.
The emotionally intense play, “Silent
Scars”, inspired by a real-life situation,
is written and directed by Hayden Forde. The
play presents a young lady who was sexually
abused by her father and was so traumatized
by her experience that the very thought of her
father returning to live in the same house with
her drove her into a state of hysteria and to
the point suicide. Her prostitute-mother, for
all her worldliness, ironically, was not astute
enough to perceive the cause of her daughter’s
unhappiness. A childhood friend and prospective
lover who was caring and supportive of this
‘broken doll’ had his moment of
exasperation and stormed away from her as he
too could not put his finger on the source of
his friend’s problem, much less fathom
the depth of her pain.
“A Black Woman’s Tale” written
by Jean Small and directed by Hayden Forde is
an astounding exercise in dramatic skill that
is going to titillate you.
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A
lone performer enacts her biography on stage
from that of a sprightly young lady to a demented,
graying old woman. The garrulous performer tells
her story that will take you back down memory-lane.
She mimes, sings, dances, experiences love,
child-birth, laments over unfilled desires,
heart-break, forlornness and finally escapes
into insanity. It is a tale that slices through
the strata of human existence and exposes raw
nerves that some of us may recognize as our
own. In this play you can laugh when you want
but with the consciousness that tears are not
really far away.
These plays are meant to entertain as there
is much to delight you. They are, at the same
time, meant to move you to a level of consciousness
as the plays are artistic re-creations of reality
– they are about ordinary people in your
very midst! And for those of us who know what
is it to be ‘wearing those shoes’
the performances are expressions of empathy
for us for the hurt we have experienced. So,
hopefully, they will be therapeutic and cleansing.
The cast of “Silent Scars” is Shaela
Menal as Abby, Michele Charlery as Linda and
David Mc Lennon as Thomas. And in “A Black
Woman’s Tale”, Brenda Calixte takes
the spotlight and tells the woman’s checkered
tale with spellbinding eloquence.
The plays are, preferably, for adult viewing
as adult issues are sometimes brought out with
candid coarseness. But trust me, you are going
to love these plays.
Discuss
Story
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