Scarlett Project

06/02/2015

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10/10/2014

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Tarell Alvin McCraney’s squishy, misbegotten “Antony and Cleopatra” resets Shakespeare’s tragedy on the island of Hispaniola during the reign of the French.

08/26/2014

Photography Daniela Fifi and Joanne Petit-Frere
Mask Designer: Joanne Petit-Frere
Actor: Paul Pryce

Experimental performance art photography. An exploration among artists. Abigail DeVille; Sculpture, Charlotte Brathwaite; Theatre Director, Joanne Petit-Frere; Sculptural Designer and Designer of the Mask, Daniela Fifi; Photographer and Paul Pryce; Actor

08/26/2014

Rum and Coca Cola by Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura’s

In August 2012 Scarlett Project produced the hugely successful play Rum and Coca Cola by Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura’s. Rum and Coca Cola is a dark Calypso musical comedy. The play compels the audience to consider two points of view; one of a cynical former Calypso champion who insists on holding onto tradition and the other of a naïve youth desperate to make something of himself by leaving the island for the United States. Rum and Coca Cola probes the issues of cultural identity in the face of change and the role of traditional art, specifically Calypso, in preserving Trinidad’s collective national memory.

08/26/2014

Smile Orange
Little Carib Theater, Trinidad and Tobago

Scarlett Project in collaboration with Frontline Productions produced Smile Orange by Jamaican playwright Trevor Rhone. The play opened on July 14, 2011 at the Little Carib Theater to a sold out house. The Director, Charlotte Brathwaite, chose to take this deceptively gentle satire on the insidious corruptions of the West Indian tourist industry of the 1970’s and reinvent it in a fresh, post- modern style of the 21st century.

Her direction choices exposed themes in the play that dealt with the way in which skin complexion plays a role in the positions of power within Caribbean society. It highlighted the cultural differences between country folks and city folks and the interaction of Caribbean men with Caucasian foreigners. The politics of race, location and social segregation in the 1970’s were exposed in this interpretation of the play. These themes were transferred into 21st Century setting, which made Smile Orange a huge success and a relevant theater piece for modern Caribbean play.