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Remembrance (Walcott)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 7m

Derek Walcott

NOTICE: Please be advised, this title is from the Samuel French Vault and is made from a scan of an archived manuscript. We hope you’ll treasure this glimpse into theatre history.

Remembrance (Walcott)

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    2w, 7m

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Summary
Remembrance is the story of an evasively eloquent retired teacher who cannot reconcile his anachronistic love of British culture with the evolation of his family and community in independent Trinidad.

The playwright was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

History
First produced by Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in 1979.
Cast Attributes

Requires 2 black men, 1 white man and 2 white females

Media

"A lyrical, audience-pleasing work." - Variety

"Mr. Walcott is a poet, and his writing is of a quality we seldom hear in the theatre." - The New Yorker

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Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott’s life and work. Both his grand ...

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