C 0 UVADE


by


MICHAEL GILKES


Inspired by a Wilson Harris Story




The purpose of COTVADE was to
hand on the legacy of the tribe...
to every newborn child. All ancestors
were involved in this dream...the
dream of COUVJADE.

(Wilson Harris: Note in The
Sleepers of Roraima p. 13. Faber and
Faber, 1970).








Director
and
Choreo izrr.r her

CLAIRMOUTE TAITT *




Designer

KEN CORSBIE *







MUSIC

from

Authentic Carib Indian Themes

by
JOHN GILKES


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Stage Manager

Assistant Stage
Managers

Sound Controller


Lights Controllers


Stage Director

Crow








Sound Technician

Master Carpenter

Sonic Art and
Paintings

Costumes



Wardrobe Controllers






Make Up

Music Played by



Singers


Alma Taitt

- Beneka Grant
Deborah Small

S Terry Hall


- Paul Archer
Suzie Savory

- Colin Carto

.- Roy Best
Eugene Williams
Owen Carter
Eldon Triunph
-Leon King
Vernon Bertyne
Victor Mcnowcr

- Ron Snvory

- Maurice Pierce

Frcmk Willis


- Hazel Williams
'"Taepllnc e"
Colin Carto

- Daphne Rogers
Otis Daniels
Jenny Robinson
Strir Cameron
Lucille Ca pbell

- Robert Narain

- Tiarry Whittacker
and the
CARIFESTA Group

- Members of the
Woodside Choir







CAST


SHANMT AND
POLITICIAN'

PAT AND NURSE


LIONEL

S/.ITOS AID
EDDIE


ARTHUR AND
MERGENICY

ASHAITI AND
JORDANITE

FATHER


JORDATII TE
SISTERS



DANCERS


- Carl ITNui-Yen


- Rahann Karim
or Mignon Lowe

-. Anthony Stewart

- Ken Corsbie



- Cedric Duncan


- Allan Cooper or
Lennox Foster

- Peter Bradford or
Clairmonte Taitt

- Ulita Anthony
Desiree Jessemy
Sheryl Samuels


Dawn Williams
Lilith Boyce
Patricia Lopes
Diane Nrui-Yen
Debbie Stevenson
James Gobin
Malcolm Hall
Peter Bradford


,.,there is and must be an inherent
device of consciousness which looks
beyond the fortress of self-created
things towards a paradoxical womb
through which we are being cautioned
that a fantastic originality exists
as the omen of unity.


(Wilson Harris 'The Phenomenal
Legacy')







STTCOPSIS


Lionel, a tormented artist/teacher
stru- rlcs in a complex world of ma.rny
cultures to identify himself, he feeools the
blood and rhythms of his entire past, and
refuses to reject any part of them.

He sees the Caribbeorn man as a unique
composite of many races, religions, cul-
tures; and tries to express his idea of
racial and cultural unit:' in his paint-
ing: only to find that he has unlc-.hcd'
a series of terrifying events.

Fe has a recurring nightmare in
which strange figures and demons nnapc.r
to him.

his mind begins to crack under the
strain. Pisz friends and even his wife
cannot understand his obsession and
ur-gency as he slowly drive himself more
and more to rint the I*ern.

As Lionel becomes more and more
withdr:run, we begin to realize that the
baby which his iife is expecting is the
real hope for the future. the hope of
a new beinnint; a ne, w unified "uySnna.






ACi'J 'WLEDGI!EIi TS


Staff of the Theatre Guild Ltd.
Wn. Foex-.rty Ltd. for loan of furniture

Guyana Broadcasting Service
Mr. B3rnio Small, Director of the Police
Band

David Thann

Momebors of the Woodside Choir
Mr. Slade F ipkinson for permission to use
Lyrics of his "SPA.I.IllU- OF EELS"

And many many others.


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