SAN­DRA L BLOOD

The elec­tri­fy­ing stage play, Anan­si & the 10 Drag­ons, part of the Sea­son of Anan­si Na­tion­al Folk­lore Fes­ti­val 2025, re­turns for one night on­ly at Queen’s Hall next Wednes­day.

This ten-year an­niver­sary gala restag­ing by Rubadiri Vic­tor and the Wire Bend Folk­lore The­atre promis­es an un­for­get­table jour­ney in­to a world of myth, mag­ic, and mod­ern spec­ta­cle, cel­e­brat­ing the time­less wis­dom of Caribbean folk­lore through the lens of Afro-Fu­tur­ism.

Au­di­ences will wit­ness the leg­endary Anan­si, the clever spi­der-trick­ster of West African and Caribbean mythol­o­gy, face off against ten fear­some drag­ons to save the kid­napped Li­on Prince and the fall­en cham­pi­ons of the An­i­mal King­dom.

Cos­tumes are de­signed by Trinidad’s great­est drag­on cos­tume cre­ators, in­clud­ing Win­ston Daniel, a third-gen­er­a­tion Car­ni­val ar­ti­san renowned for his in­tri­cate drag­on mas cre­ations, and Ja­son Meighoo a mul­ti­ple drag­on cham­pi­on known for the pow­er and spec­ta­cle of his huge drag­on cre­ations.

The play ho­n­ours the en­dur­ing lega­cy of tra­di­tion­al Trinida­di­an mas­quer­ade and al­so in­cor­po­rates an­i­ma­tion on­stage.

The day’s of­fer­ings in­clude two school per­for­mances at 9 am and 12.30 pm, and a 7 pm gala per­for­mance pre­ced­ed by cock­tails at 6 pm.

This must-see pro­duc­tion is a cen­ter­piece of the ex­pand­ed Sea­son of Anan­si Fes­ti­val, a two-month cel­e­bra­tion of folk­lore and sto­ry­telling launched last month. The fes­ti­val in­cludes the Na­tion­al Book­store Tour and School Sto­ry­telling Tour, both led by Vic­tor, whose mis­sion is to re-dy­namize book­stores as cul­tur­al hubs and re-es­tab­lish read­ing as a pri­ma­ry leisure ac­tiv­i­ty for youth and fam­i­lies.

Vic­tor, a cel­e­brat­ed au­thor of three na­tion­al best­selling Anan­si nov­els—Anan­si & the 10 Drag­ons, Anan­si the Book of Night, and Anan­si in the Land of Mon­sters & Oth­er Sto­ries —be­lieves this work is crit­i­cal to pre­serv­ing the sto­ry­telling tra­di­tions of the Caribbean.

“We have some of the rich­est folk­lore on the plan­et,” he as­sures. “Our el­ders passed it on, around fires and din­ner ta­bles. Now, it’s our turn to pass it for­ward to new gen­er­a­tions in books, in the­atre, in cin­e­mas, and on the dig­i­tal stage.”

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