Ti-Jean and his Brothers was Derek Walcott's first venture into
musical plays and is still his most popular work. A lilting St
Lucian folk-tale, it tells the story of a poor family who dwell on
the edge of a magical forest haunted by the devil's spirits. The
brilliance of Walcott's writing draws us into the realms of fantasy
where the actual and the miraculous collide. Dennis Scott's An Echo
in the Bone is set during a traditional Nine-Night Ceremony held to
honour the spirit of the dead. Shattering sequential time in a
series of dreamlike episodes the play takes us back to the time of
plantations and slavery - and the savage murder of the white estate
owner. Who killed Mr. Charles? The answers lie deep in the racial
memory, they 'echo in the bone'. The giddy atmosphere of carnival
is the setting for Errol Hill's Man Better Man, a rumbustious,
colourful comedy musical about stickfighters. With dance and song
the battling troubadours and the calypsonian weave a tale of
braver, superstition and fraudulence. When first performed the
Times described it as 'a blazing electrifying feast of rhythm and
colour'.
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