Theater Arts

Sitting in Limbo is a play written by Dawn Penso and Judith Hepburn who atomic number 18 both Jamaican nationals living in London, the play was directed by Jo-Ann McCabe. Sitting in Limbo was held at the University of the West Indies Cave pile Campus, Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination in the Walcott Warner Theater. The laze information featured a trio of Barbadian actors Amanda Cumerbatch as Yvonne Campbell, Philip Eno as the attempt and radiocommunication announcer and finally Loretta Hackett as Nita George, on Monday 25th February 2013.The theatrical spell starts out with a contrast between two women, one of a fairly wealthy background and the other struggling to make ends attend this portrays a conflict between both women based on their differences which in the end both women overcame. The play about a prison warden, Nita George and captive Yvonne Campbell depicts a political disruption in Grenadas annals which lead to the imprisonment of Grenadian Phllis Coar d.Immured along with her economize for assassinating Grenadas elected charge Minister, Nita presumes that Yvonne is a greedy cleaning woman with a thirst for predominance and that she is the of import reason behind all the troubles in Grenada due to her pushing her husband into the overthrow of the Prime Minister. Nita openly affronts Yvonne, while Yvonne demands that she be respected beca single-valued function of her rig in society and the success she has brought upon the country.Two eld had passed and Nitas views about Yvonne hadnt changed precisely as the years went by for a total of vii years and they both opened up to each other and suitable to each others personalities Nita saw Yvonne as a woman with humanity and compassion. Although the play is mainly about the two characters Nita and Yvonne, the radio announcer plays a very important role, he notifies the hearing about the amount of years passed and the fate of Grenada, the radio announcer practically gives viewer s an idea of what was going on during the play.The trio has done an exceptionally great job on the snatch Sitting in Limbo. The use of accents added a great inwardness on the nationality of the characters or the origin where the incident was being taken place. The use of costume was to a fault great because one could identify which character was which , when Nita or Loretta wore the khaki shirt and the khaki pants it gave the audience a tweak that she was some sort of guard or officer or in this case a prison warden.In Philips case the use of headphones gave the audience an idea that he was a Dj or a radio announcer. The use of the projection of bars gave the audience an idea that it was some manikin of prison. The bars also reflected on how each woman felt inside, Nita onerous to raise a family by herself in the economic struggles felt absorbed because she wanted to live a better life, she wanted to reach for her goals moreover she could not do so because of the current situ ation but in the end broke free and decided to accept the offer her sister had given up her.Yvonne although imprisoned literally felt imprisoned due to the fact that hidden down inside she knew what she did was wrong but her arrogance and pride got in the way ,she broke free by refusing to sign a declaration which could have literally freed her by denying everything she had actually done. However they were some tiddler imperfections which were indeed noticeable, such as the backing of the audience, Phillip walking offstage in the beginning the fade had actually begun and where Loretta and Amanda had somewhat forgotten a bit of their lines.There were also some technical difficulties where as the fade would begin too primal or a little too late but they but did not affect the theatrical piece it self. The play was a curious piece especially because it was my first time viewing a moon read play and because they tied in a fictional crisis into a play which I found very creative. Th e play also force the audience and made it an enjoyable play for them.