Plays for Today contains three outstanding plays by three of the Caribbean's greatest playwrights, brought together for the first time in one volume.
Ti-Jean and his Brothers is an uplifting St Lucian folk-tale. It tells the story of a poor family who dwell on the edge of a magical forest haunted by the devil's spirits.
An Echo in the Bone is set during a traditional Nine-Night Ceremony held to honour the spirit of the dead. Shattering the sequential time in a series of dreamlike episodes, the play takes us back to the time of plantations and slavery - and the savage murder of the white estate owner. Who killed Mr Charles? The answers lie deep in the racial memory, they 'echo in the bone'.
And Man Better Man is set in the giddy atmosphere of carnival. It is a rumbustuous, colourful comedy musical about stickfighters. With dance and song the battling troubadours and the calypsonian weave a tale of bravery, superstition and fraudulence.
This is Book 7 in the Longman Caribbean Writers Series. See all Longman Caribbean Writers books here.
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TI-JEAN AND HIS BROTHERS
Derek Walcott published his first collection of 25 poems when he was nineteen years old and his first full-length play, Henri Christophe, a drama on the Haitian revolutionary leader, a year later. Walcott now has to his credit over a dozen books of poetry and his verse is published regularly in th
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