Twilight Cafe and Flag Woman: Two Plays [Paperback]

Anthony Hall (Author)

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Publication Date: January 27, 2006

Twilight Caf¿ [The Last Breakfast]: "At last! A play about Caribbean men and women as we are NOW! Blood bursting through history, primal fears, contemporary gender wars, the unexamined cliches of masculinity lagging far behind the new feminine, the collapse of the performative in gender roles and formations now rendered obsolete - Tony Hall's Twilight Cafe is a brilliant and harrowing sexual embrace. The secularism of the post-post-modern, Orisha worship, soucouyants, hidden duennes and blue Carnival devils merge in a dance of no-death that cuts to the heart of the vast chasm of incomprehension between men and women." Ramabai Espinet Toronto August 9th, 2005 What Hall seems to be attempting here is a relief map of the Trinidadian psycho-social landscape . . . . The disconnectedness of the scenes and the almost tabula rasa quality each tableau presents the actors with could yield very interesting results . . ." Raymond RamcharitarTrinidad Express Wednesday June 26th, 2002 Flag Woman: It is the night before the carnival starts and Blind Miss B, an aging flag woman, is forced to confront, with reluctance, the life-long demons trapped in her head.

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About the Author

Tony Hall was born in 1948 on Trinidad and has been making plays in the street, on stage and screen ever since. He is the author of acclaimed works for stage, Jean and Dinah . . . (1994), Red House [Fire! Fire!] (1999), MUD! (2001), Twilight Caf¿ [The Last Breakfast] (2002), a calypso musical with David Rudder, The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club (2004) and Flag Woman (2005) for radio. With Banyan he has created 3 major drama series and several award winning documentaries and public affairs programmes for television. Tony Hall founded, with Errol Fabien, Lordstreet Theatre Company with the prize winning jouvay masquerade band trilogy, A Band on Drugs (1990), A Band on Violence (1991) and A Band on US (1992). Tony has been Visiting Artist in Residence at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut since 1998. He lives with his family on Tobago.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (January 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1420881833
• ISBN-13: 978-1420881837
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,424,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars At last! A play about Caribbean men and women as we are NOW!, February 7, 2006

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Twilight Café [The Last Breakfast]:

"At last! A play about Caribbean men and women as we are NOW! Blood bursting through history, primal fears, contemporary gender wars, the unexamined cliches of masculinity lagging far behind the new feminine, the collapse of the performative in gender roles and formations now rendered obsolete - Tony Hall's Twilight Cafe is a brilliant and harrowing sexual embrace. The secularism of the post-post-modern, Orisha worship, soucouyants, hidden duennes and blue Carnival devils merge in a dance of no-death that cuts to the heart of the vast chasm of incomprehension between men and women."



Ramabai Espinet

Toronto

August 9th, 2005