RT Article
T1 Theater in the Bush: Art, Politics, and Community in the Bahamas
JF Social justice
VO 34
IS 1
SP 80
OP 96
A1 Strachan, Ian Gregory 1969-
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157325
AB Part of a special issue on the relationship between art, identity, and social justice. The writer traces the history of the Track Road Theater Company, which he established in the Bahamas in 1996. He discusses the expectations, successes, and failures of the company's first decade in operation; maps his own development as a playwright and artist; and provides a critical look at the cultural development and the politics of identity in the Bahamas since it became independent from Great Britain in 1973. He observes that operating an amateur theater company with anti-establishment leanings in the small island society of the Bahamas has been an education in censorship, class dynamics, systematic neglect, general indifference, and pragmatism. He notes, however, the success of a 2006 production that achieved true popularity; it was completely uncontroversial.
K1 Arts
K1 Associations, institutions, etc
K1 Theaters
K1 Arts facilities
K1 Performing arts
K1 Socialism & theater
K1 Theater & society
K1 Societies
K1 Theatrical companies
K1 Poets
K1 Novelists
K1 Filmmakers
K1 Dramatists
K1 Authors
K1 Political theater
K1 Theater
K1 Political Science
K1 Political plays