A new comedy from Téyat Pawòl, intriguingly entitled “Madame Speaker”, opens this Friday evening, January 24, at the Arawak House of Culture, and continues on Saturday and Sunday.
“Madame Speaker” is based on actual and fictitious tales of “small island politics” and handles serious issues in unconventional ways, according to Téyat Pawòl’s press release. “So, the fictitious may seem factual and the factual may appear fictitious. The onus is on the viewer to decipher one from the other.”
Writer/director, Alex Bruno says, “Madame Speaker is so named to evoke curiosity, but the message in this play goes beyond just the name.” Bruno asks that patrons come to the play with open minds.
The play calls attention to political passion and a change in the socio-political landscape of Dominica and the Caribbean region. “The arts have played a significant part in documenting historical events, and “Madame Speaker” seeks to do just that,” says Téyat Pawòl.
The main character in the play is Madame Speaker, who is played by Rashida Gachette, a theatre veteran of some 30 years. Other leading members of the cast are Noreen Joseph, Velda Wade and Marja “Lady Star” Jeffers, with other performers being Shanon John, Colmore Daniel, Analia Junkere, Cornell Charles and Liana Prince.
The group, which was formed in 2001, plans to stage two more plays, “United We Stand” and “Douvan Jou”, in 2014.
“Madame Speaker” plays Friday-Sunday (January 24-26) at 8:00pm. Tickets cost $25 in advance from Bulls Eye Pharmacy and the Arawak box office, and $30 at the door.
Will this play be staged in the north ?
Sounds interesting! lets go folks!
heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy lianna we boiii………….. madame deparler………….. u forget you cannot read man lol…………..good show anyways…………… ill be there to see the humiliation on your face
u stupid de woman have her own business for years and u saying she cannot read go get a life I know who u are stop being so jealousy
What that have to do with the price of codfish? that “i know who you are” sentence sounds very familiar!
Bonjai. What a shame.
laborites b aware…..warning
Thank you, Dominica News Online. Thanks for publishing this news item. We really do appreciate it and we invite patrons to come out and see this play. Thanks again.
Peace
This sounds exciting…..I will be there
When the people that suppose to know better sit on their butt and say nothing to condemn the evils that surround us, and instead try to condemn the voice of the few brave ones, while they use their influence to make their money and make us laugh when they know we going to perish is nothing short of crookery. Alex Bruno must not use “Madam speaker” to make us laugh when he knows “Madam Speaker” killing us.
Relax and enjoy the play. That is his contribution to the strugle.