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| Carment Tipling & Ted Dwyer Directed by Carol Lawes Lyrics by Carmen Tipling & Ted Dwyer Music by Noel Dexter & Jon Williams Set by Lauriston Watson Costumes by Brian Heap Movement by Barry Moncrieffe Lighting by George Carter |
The
Story The
action takes place on Squire Hardie's Estate, and focuses on the
lives of workers in the days leading up to full freedom.Miss Elfreda, loved and respected by all, has all her hopes set on the future of her son Rufus, as her own attempts to buy an early freedom for herself have been thwarted. She uses her "powers" to speed up the process. Mr. Bucky - Butler in the Great House, feels he must secure the future of his daughter - Precious Grace, as he himself is already old. Buckie poses a riddle, and the prize is Precious's hand in marriage. The relationship between Rufus and Precious Grace is slowed down by enmity between Elfreda and Buckie, the basis of which is not known to the workers. The Squire and his wife Amanda, naturally are not anxious to have full freedom, and hire a consultant to find the best way of keeping the workers on the estate. Throughout all of this, Anancy, "the present and the past" manipulates, schemes and uses all his powers to have things turn out in the workers' favour. After a slight backfiring, he succeeds. The workers get their freedom, the lovers "get through", Buckie and Elfreda are reconciled and the Squire and Amanda accept what they can't change —Freedom.
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4 Tom Redcam Avenue, Kingston 5, Jamaica W.I.