‘EXPRESSIONS 2’, as the name suggests is the second in the new series of a production staged by GEMS Theatre Productions at the playhouse in Kingston.It brings together seasoned performers and poetry readers along with singers and dancers providing an evening for patrons to enjoy an excerpt from Shakespeare, story telling from Paul Keens-Douglas, experimental theatre from the students of the National School of Theatre Arts, poems by Martin Carter, Elly Niland, David Dabydeen, Ian McDonald, Janet Naidu, C.E.J. Ramcharitar-Lalla, Mahadai Das, Ruel Johnson, Cassia Alphonso, Lloyd Marshall,Kai Davis, William Blake, Chris Tse and Rudy Williams.
Local actors Sean Thompson, Mariatha Causway and Randolph Critchlow will be performing their own poems along with poets Petamber Persaud, Cassia Alphonso and Lloyd Marshall. Seasoned readers Vanda Radzik, Kit Nascimento and Scheherazade Khan will be taking the stage along with Damian Fernandes doing one of Robert Fernandes poems from his first book of poetry.
Kimberly Samuels will be using her ‘opera-style’ voice to do Franco Zeferilli’s Doctor Zhivago theme song ‘a time for us’
Other performances on stage will be Ron Robinson, Derek Gomes, Rajan Tiwari, Mark Luke-Edwards, Nuriyyih Gerrard, Nicola Moonsammy, Sonia Yarde, Paul Budnah and Rajan Tiwari.
Artworks form students of the Burrows School of art will enhance the foyer and will be on sale.
Tickets, $1000 for the evening performance, are available at Oasis Café and The Theatre Guild.
The event will start promptly at 18:00 hrs.