Play Mas

Play Mas

By Mustapha Matura
Setting: 
Trinidad
No. acts: 
2
Cast total: 
12
Male cast: 
9
Female cast: 
3

Synopsis

Play Mas recreates the impact of the heady political momentum generated by the People's National Movement in Trinidad in the early fifties and won the Evening Standard Most
Promising Playwright Award.

Original production

Opening night: 
16/07/1974
Original Cast:
Ed Bishop Chuck Reynolds
Tommy Eytle Doctor
Norman Beaton Frank
Mercia Mansfield Miss Gookool
Robert L Bassiere Mr Lyle
Charles Pemberton Mr Mckay
Frank Singuineau Mr Tate
Locita  Lijertwood Mrs Banks
Mona Hammond Mrs Samuel
Stefan Kalipha Ramjohn Gookool
Rudolph Walker Samuel
Trevor Thomas Sergeant
Production Team:
Donald Howarth Director
Douglas Heap Designer
Nick Chelton Lighting
Peter Minshall Costume Designer

Publications

Assets

Type Code
Programme Private Collection

Union Catalogue

Link Series Reference Archive Info
Production management file THM/273/4/1/110 English Stage Company at V&A Theatre Collection
Plans THM/273/4/23/109 English Stage Company at V&A Theatre Collection  
Photographs THM/273/6/1/395 English Stage Company at V&A Theatre Collection  
Press Cuttings THM/273/7/2/355 English Stage Company at V&A Theatre Collection  
Poster Designs THM/273/7/6/36 English Stage Company at V&A Theatre Collection  
Programme TFP041 Future Histories - Black Performance and Carnaval Archive