DEREK WALCOTT (1930 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Derek Walcott
Batai |
| 1st Produced: | Port-of-Spain | 1965 | ||||
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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: | 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 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | ISBN | - | |||
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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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| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus and Giroux | ISBN | 9780374118815 | |||
| Music: | Concept album: Warner Brothers | 1997 | ||||
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| 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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| 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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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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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| 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 | ISBN | B000NOYNEW | |||
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| Genre: | Mythic Drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 7 BM, 1 WF, dancer, singer, M chorus, drummers, extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
 | 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 | ISBN | 9780374528133 | |||
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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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| 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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Haitian Earth, The |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Haitian Trilogy" published by Pan Macmillan, South Africa 2002 | ISBN | 9780374528133 | |||
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Harry Dernier |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1952 | ||||
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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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Henri Christophe |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1950 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Haitian Trilogy" published by Pan Macmillan, South Africa 2002 | ISBN | 9780374528133 | |||
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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 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | University College of the West Indies Extra-Mural Department, Mona, 1957 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Farrar Straus, New York, 1986 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Notes: | music by Galt MacDermot | |||||
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O Babylon! |
| 1st Produced: | Port-of-Spain | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York, 1978 | ISBN | - | |||
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| 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 | ISBN | 9780571168569 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | from epic by Homer | |||||
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Pantomime |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1978 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Rememberance and Pantomime" published by FarrarStraus and Giroux 1980 | ISBN | 9780374515690 | |||
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Paolo and Francesca |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1951 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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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| 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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Remembrance |
| 1st Produced: | St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands | 1977 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York, 1980 | ISBN | - | |||
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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: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | ISBN | B000NOYNEW | |||
| 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 | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| 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: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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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Steel |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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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Three Assassins |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1951 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | ISBN | B000NOYNEW | |||
| 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: | Fable with music | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| 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: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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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Wine of the Country, The |
| 1st Produced: | Mona | 1956 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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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