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substantial study...this book is essentially the story of a very particular theatre company as it grew up and evolved over four tempestuous decades on Trinidad...Bruce King's account of the Workshop and the man is admirably clear and to the point...this is a superb book - scholarly, scrupulous, immensley detailed but also very readable...a major achievement. Informationen zum Autor Bruce King has held professorships or distinguished visiting professorships at Ibadan, Lagos, Stirling, Windsor (Canada), Canterbury (NZ), Ben Gurion (Israel), Paris III, Paris VII, and North Alabama. He is author of Three Indian Poets (OUP New Delhi, 1991); The New English Literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World (Macmillan, and St Martin's Press NY, 1980); Literatures of the World in English (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974); and series editor of English Dramatists (Macmillan - 14 books); and Modern Dramatists (Macmillan, Grove Press and St Martin's Press, NY). Klappentext Written at Derek Walcott's suggestion, and based on interviews with the playwright, this is the first detailed study of a post-colonial theatre company and the problems of creating "serious" theatre in the former British colonies. The book shows how the Nobel Prize winner strove to create a world class theatre ensemble in the West Indies--a Trinidadian Brecht Berliner ensemble--and traces his life and career in West Indian theatre and the history of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. A major contribution to West Indian history and theatre, Bruce King's study reveals the heroic will of Derek Walcott, and his determination to prove that West Indian drama was a force with which to be reckoned. Zusammenfassung A detailed study of a post-colonial theatre company and the problems in creating serious theatre in the West Indies. By looking at the life and career of Nobel Prize winner, Derek Walcott, King traces the history of the Trinidad Theatre workshop and the history of theatre in the former colonies....
