Drums and Colours

Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama is a play by Derek Walcott. It was commissioned by the University of the West Indies[1] for the opening of the First Federal Parliament of the West Indies on 23 April 1958, when the play was first performed in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,[2] in an open-air production involving actors and personnel from other parts of the Caribbean as part of a regional arts festival to celebrate the new (and short-lived) West Indies Federation.[3] Drums and Colours was published in a special issue of Caribbean Quarterly in 1961.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Robert D. Hamner, Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros, University of Missouri Press, 1997, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Derek Walcott biography at Poetry Foundation.
  3. ↑ Martin Banham (ed.), "Trinidad and Tobago", in The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 2000 reprint edition, p. 1125.
  4. ↑ Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 7, Nos. 1–2, March-June 1961, 104 pp. See John Robert Lee (ed.), Bibliography of St. Lucian Creative Writing: Poetry, Prose, Drama by St. Lucia Writers, 1948–2013, Castries, Saint Lucia: Cultural Development Foundation, 2013, p. 66.


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