Theatre · A way to begin
Woman Take Two
Telcine Turner · 1994
Synopsis
In the Bahamas, Harold Davies, an ambitious man, is ready to sacrifice his daughter Sonia to his career. Beverly Humes and her fiancé Lionel Joseph are caught up in his manoeuvres, while Merline Evans brings her warmth and folk wisdom and Matilda Bacombe, the servant, sees everything that goes on. In three acts, the play weaves self-interested alliances around love and greed, in the manner of a suspense plot.
Context
Written years before its first production, the play won the drama prize in the literary competition organised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the University of the West Indies, then a Commonwealth prize. Demanding about the staging, its author waited nearly twenty years before entrusting it to David Burrows, who premiered it in 1994. Published by Vantage Press, it also appeared in 1994 from Macmillan Caribbean.
Who it is for
A play in three acts, in English, tense to the end because of its secrets; it reads easily.
Prizes and reception
It is still on the literature examination syllabus taken by Bahamian secondary school students.
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