Heaven A Play in Two Acts - Softcover

Edgecombe, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146344091X ISBN 13: 9781463440916

Publisher: AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Heaven is a discothèque frequented by thrill seekers. On this Saturday night Wayne Cabey, a high school boy, has come to win the dance competition featured by the disco. He needs the price money to pay for his school leaving examinations and has persuaded his gorgeous friend, Cynthia Corbett, to be his dance partner and help him win. But two far more powerful men, Sam Drummonds and Tony Thompson (with his wife Dilys) are also in Heaven with their own plans for Cynthia. The young dance couple must work their way through a night of temptations, machinations and passions that are an integral part of their world. Howard A. Fergus, in his review of the play says: "Heaven, employed as a key metaphor by the author, reflects the ambiguities, tensions and uncertainties of real life . . . It is the heaven metaphor which lifts an otherwise interesting man-woman love-tangle story into the highly engaging realm of good art"

About this title

About the Author:

David Edgecombe is one of the Caribbean's leading playwrights. He began writing plays as a schoolboy and his work has been produced across the Caribbean, Canada and Africa. On leaving high school he founded the Montserrat Theatre Group (MTG) and later became its artistic director. In Canada he worked for several years with the Black Theatre Workshop of Montreal directing a number of award winning productions and staging several of his early plays. During this period he was commissioned to write a play based on the works of the celebrated novelist Austin Clarke, for Canada's participation in the Second World Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in Nigeria. He titled the play Strong Currents. The BBC broadcast another of his plays, Kirnon's Kingdom, worldwide. As Director of the Reichhold Center for the Arts, University of the Virgin Islands, Edgecombe started such programs as the Reichhold Caribbean Repertory Company and the Youth Moviemaking Workshop to provide expanded opportunities for artists and technicians working in the Caribbean. He is currently part of a developing network dedicated to promoting the works of artists, especially Caribbean artists. The network contends in the literary arts particularly, Caribbean artists have not had success commensurate with their talents, despite the three Caribbean artists who have already won Nobel prizes for their work - an amazing achievement by any measure.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 146344091X
• ISBN 13: 9781463440916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196