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Diary of Confinement: a multi-sided view of T&T’s society
Published:
Monday, October 15, 2012
The Archbishop meets with the journalist.
Shango Baku’s political drama Diary of Confinement was staged at the Central Bank Auditorium last month. The play offered a multi-sided view of T&T’s society in the 70s and 80s from the point of view of death row prisoner Andy Thomas.
Baku’s drama, part documentary and part fiction, flits back and forth through time and social strata, from the conflicting religious currents of Rastafarianism, Islam and Catholicism, to the Papal visit of 1985; from the gated communities of the well-to-do to naive guerrillas in the hills; from the corridors of political power to the “sufferers” at the roots of society.
The play’s episodic structure was tenuously strung together by narrator Rhonda Lewis, also known as Thunder Sowevhi. The cast comprised the youthful Tobago Drama Guild (TDG) alongside Trinidad’s more seasoned senior actors. Diary of Confinement was directed by Tony Hall.
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