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CHICKEN MERRY... HAWK DEH NEAR |
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| Developed by Barbara Gloudon with the Pantomime Workshop Music Grub Cooper with contributions from Lloyd Lovindeer and Dwight Sanderson Lyrics Barbara Gloudon Movement and Staging Prof. Rex Nettleford & George Howard Set Michael Lorde Costumes Anya Gloudon Props Symonne Coombs Lighting George Carter & Michael McDonald Sound Vincent Chin Penn & Sylvester Campbell Stage Management Larry Watson Directed by Barbara Gloudon |
The
Story
Everybody is eating chicken meat and in a time when food festivals are the rage, the community stages its Chicken Festival (to the discomfort of chickens who are not all that happy about the new dietary craze). There is also conflict between Miss Mirrie, the community matriarch and Papa D, the ambitious deejay who takes the credit for inititiating the Chicken Festival and mesmerizes the people with his “Dutty Song”. Both Papa D and Miss Mirrie have enthusiastic followers who take sides in supporting them. Papa D’s manager-promoter (Sistah Pinkie) wants him to cut a new album, but he is more interested in other things, such as Miss Mirrie’s chickens and her daughter Rosalie. However, Rosalie and the community policeman, Steve, have eyes only for each other. After a promising start, Papa D’s entrepreneurial efforts start to go sour. The people, fickle as usual, turn from him. Papa D decides to improve his fortunes by capturing Mirrie’s prize chickens with the help of his two Dobermen and a somewhat reluctant Sistah Pinkie. But Papa D reckons without the fighting spirit of Mirrie and her chickens, not to mention the crime-busting efforts of Steve and his Squaddies. Papa D, thoroughly dissed, ends up before the judge. He has to make some serious changes in his life or else… Meanwhile, Miss Mirrie’s chickens are saved from the frying pan. Steve gets a long-awaited promotion (and a raise of pay) and the good people get together for a community celebration in which everybody has something to sing about.
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4 Tom Redcam Avenue, Kingston 5, Jamaica W.I.