Book by
Barbara Gloudon
Directed by
Brian Heap
Lyrics by
Barbara Gloudon
Music by
Grub Cooper
Movement by
Rex Nettleford
Set by
Jennifer Chang
Costumes by
Norman Russell
Props by
Maureen Harris & Patrick Heron
Lighting by
George Carter
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The
Story
The people of Trash Town, led by Mama Queenie, fight daily
to survive down in the Trash, but they're proud and hopeful. Mama
Queenie is raising Esmeralda to be a good girl, a worthy wife
for Dukie, Mama Queenie's one-son, sent to study abroad. He's
returning home when trouble strikes
Trash Town life goes on with the Count of Cross Roads, Lord Bag
and Pan, Khus Khus and his Windscreen Brigade, Matty, Zackie and
Dora and all the assorted Trashers getting on with it. Meanwhile,
up on Ready Heights, King Nuff bolts and bars his door cause he
don't like to see the poor, loving only his daughter the Princess
Polyester who needs/wants a husband most desperately. So King
Nuff offers a reward
Enter the Count
of Cross Roads and Lord Bag and Pan, Trashers going where Nuff
has forbidden them to tread.
Deceived and distraught, King Nuff unleashes his ultimate weaponDutty
Dunnie, the dreaded monster. And then!!! And then!!! It all ends
happily (more or less).
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Cast of Characters
Mama Queenie...... Leonie Forbes/
............................... Dorothy Cunningham
King Nuff ............. Oliver Samuels / Ted Dwyer
Esmeralda.............. Tulip Reid / Diana Hamilton
Dukie..................... David Ellis / Peter Jackson
Princess Polyester ... Fae Ellington / Joan Hutchinson
Lord Bag & Pan .....Volier Johnson/ Colin Anglin
Count Of Cross Roads...... Homer Heron / Aston Jess
Matty................... Joan Hutchinson/Delores Williams
Zacky.................. Silton Townsend / Lenford Salmon
Dora .................. D orothy Cunningham/
..................... .....Myrna Laughton
Khus Khus ....... Michael Nicholson/ Kevin Sinclair
Windscreen Brigade: Andrew Clarke, Sharon Cawley
Erica Brown, Iris Hoo Fah
Other Trash Towners: Marcia Brown, Faith Bucknor,
Halcyone Samms, Jackie Higgins, Claudia Josephs, Fleurette
Harris-Forrest, Robert Clarke, Clive Duncan, Hugh Japhatt,
Delroy Rose
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Musical
Numbers
Act One
Trash
One Hand Alone Can't clap
I Am King Nuff
Wondering
Better, Better Come
We Can Sing
We Nuh Like Fe wuk
Ketch Dem
Act Two
Today A Fe We Day
To Be A Gentleman
Trust Me
We Nuh Fraid
Dukie Come Home
Our Time Is Now.
Finale
The Orchestra
Grub Cooper - Musical Director
Steve Golding - Guitar
Donovan Palmer - Piano
Calvin Cameron - Trombone
Glenroy Plummer - Drums
Dave Wedderburn Bass
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