Theatre patrons get to relive a bit of history in March to Caroni, a new student production from The University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Creative and Festival Arts. Audience members follow the action outside the Learning Resource Centre's theater space, to several nearby locations on the St Augustine campus, as they participate in the re-enactment of a rally agitating for social equality during the 1970s.
Sporting Afro hairstyles, dashikis and period costumes, the mainly youthful cast use drums, music, calypso, and poetry–with cameo performances by Black Stalin (Leroy Calliste) and Eintou Springer–to dramatise a slice of T&T's revolutionary history. Drawing segments from The Roaring 70s by Zeno Constance, the play tells how Black Power revolutionaries went on foot from Port-of-Spain to Caroni, to meet in solidarity with poor and oppressed Indo-Trinidadians working on the sugar cane plantations.
March to Caroni continues at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI, St Augustine, from March 19 - 21 and March 26 - 28. Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 pm and Sunday shows at 6 pm. Tickets cost $50; $30 for UWI students and $20 for children. For more info, call 662-2002, ext 2510 or 3791.