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The Arts and their narrative have ...
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Popular theatre has become so ingrained, (possibly in satire) that even if today a serious production, treated with themes and a strong underlying moral, was to be produced, the audience would laugh at every line.
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The problem is that the joke is on them. This is difficult to deny, and the theatre arts population, ‘we’ must address its values within the context that we survive in. It takes me back to the mid1980s when I introduced the character of ‘The Elder’ in an illustrated story named ‘The Ornate Goblet.” A spe- cific family in the arts wrote both Chronicle and Stabroek News, declaring that I was promoting an occult theme, while I should use my talent to “make people laugh”, the theme fitted into mystery adventure, the papers however, did ignore their letter but showed it to me.
The incognito person behind Pepping Tom who wrote that article drew an ironic class reference to the deep work of self-problem solving with two popular writers, both with commendable skill, both privileged in our colonial past,
