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Errol Hill

ERROL HILL

  (1921 - 2003)
Nationality:    USA
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Born, august 5, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. agent: Grace Hope Hill, 31 Haskins Road, Hanover, NH 03755-2204

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below is a list of Errol Hill's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Dance Bongo         Dimanche Gras Carnival Show         Man Better Man         Strictly Matrimony         Wey-Wey         What Price A Slave         Whistling Charlie And the Monster
Dance Bongo

Synopsis:
Trying to wake the dead

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     1965

Organisations:
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1st Published:
University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 1966; Contained in: "Caribbean Plays volume 29" published by University of the West Indies 1972   

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Dimanche Gras Carnival Show

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Trinidad     1963

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Man Better Man

Synopsis:
a voodoo practitioner gains control of a village. a young man is desperate to get a certain girl goes to him for help

Notes:
Music by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson; lyrics And book by errol Hill

1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut     1960

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in a Time and a Season ed. errol Hill, Trinidad: Dept of extra-Mural Studies, University of the West Indies 1976 and in the Yale School of Drama Presents ed. J. Gassner, New Haven: Yale UP, c1964, 1964   

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

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Strictly Matrimony

Synopsis:
Happy life of Jamaican labourer threatened when whit woman convinces his partner of the benefits of matrimony.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut     1959

Organisations:
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1st Published:
University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 1966   

Music:
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Genre:
Domestic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wey-Wey

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1st Produced:
Trinidad     1957

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1st Published:
University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 1958   

Music:
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What Price A Slave

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Whistling Charlie And the Monster

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1st Produced:
Trinidad     1964

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Genre:
Carnival Show

Parts:
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