Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (The Fourth Wall)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138678872 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Lynette Goddard is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
For some of them, these dreams of a new life became a reality, but they were experienced differently across genders and generations. . Lynette Goddard focuses on how the play articulates the narratives of migration that prompted many West Indians to uproot from their homes on the islands and move to the England in the postwar era. Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black play in Britain - from its original production at the Royal Court in 1958, to the National Theatre in 2012. It depicts the lives of a black community living in poverty in a shared tenement yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the mid 1940s, showing how each of the characters carries dreams of escaping to create better lives for themselves and their families
About the AuthorLynette Goddard is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.