"It's re­al­ly the­atre of the ab­surd," says play­wright Ronald John in ref­er­ence to his play, The Sil­ly Peo­ple Play Mas, which runs at the Trinidad The­atre Work­shop, lo­cat­ed at the cor­ner of Jern­ing­ham Av­enue and Nor­folk Street, Bel­mont. The play is on stage on Feb­ru­ary 23-26, March 1-4 and March 8-11, at 8 pm night­ly.

The play's cast in­clude Er­rol "Blood" Roberts, There­sa Awai, Ly­lah Per­sad, Taro­mi Lour­des Joseph, Kyle Cox, Idress Saleem, Ben­del "Sharky" Jack, Alvin For­tune and Dil­lon Jimenez. Ac­cord­ing to the play­wright, it is an old mas dra­ma with the ob­vi­ous satir­i­cal con­tent. The sto­ry­line is a stretch of the imag­i­na­tion but it is lo­cat­ed in the re­al­i­ty of our time.

"The is­sues are re­al," says John, "the char­ac­ters are re­al and their be­hav­iour is mo­ti­va­tion for the seem­ing­ly ob­nox­ious man­ner in which I present them. "J'Ou­vert in out Car­ni­val is 'the­atre of the ab­surd' and this play has ab­surd char­ac­ters, so it's an old mas stag­ing in a small space." John's pre­vi­ous play, Dance Me, Lover, re­ceived gala per­for­mances in 2009 at the then new­ly built Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (MA­PA), in Port-of-Spain.

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