It's All About Family, Music, and Life - Jamaica Day Four
Today was a laidback day, and a good one. Coming over to our cousin Pauline's in the morning, we spent the afternoon with her boys Russell and Ryan. Sitting on the couch, listening to musicand starting to get to know eachother a bit - a little later on our cousin Angel (check out her space - www.myspace.com/angelshalome) and we headed uptown to do some shopping and just walk around. A little later past that, after returning to Pauline's and chillin' on the porch cousin Nadia came over to take Clinton out to a musical (today was the first day we met any of these cousins - and the first any of them had met eachother! (With the exception of the brothers of course.)
The show was fabulous to say the least - I'm sure it's going to be one of our Jamaica highlights. So well written (I could understand probably about 85-90% of it), well acted, well danced, the music and the whole performance was engaging. I cared about the characters and at the serious moments was vexed at some of the audience for not realizing the gravity. Called Curfew, the show was about the gang warfare and crime in the inner city of Jamaica where either the police or the 'warlords' rule with fear and blood of the people runs through the street, everyone being touched by the death of a loved one and afraid of what terror may come next. The cry from one of the lead characters was 'PEACE'. Peace through music, through positive lyrics, through taking a stand. I could go on more about it but Clinton took some videos and if he uploads them to facebook the show can speak for itself. I'll just add one thing though, I asked Nadia about it and she said the play depicted the lives of people in the innercity accurately. Curfews are enforced either by the police or by gang leaders in times of 'war'. If you're out after it and get caught by someone in a gang you'll likely be shot - if by the police - probably jail time.
Such passionate people, such a different world than the one I live in.
The show was fabulous to say the least - I'm sure it's going to be one of our Jamaica highlights. So well written (I could understand probably about 85-90% of it), well acted, well danced, the music and the whole performance was engaging. I cared about the characters and at the serious moments was vexed at some of the audience for not realizing the gravity. Called Curfew, the show was about the gang warfare and crime in the inner city of Jamaica where either the police or the 'warlords' rule with fear and blood of the people runs through the street, everyone being touched by the death of a loved one and afraid of what terror may come next. The cry from one of the lead characters was 'PEACE'. Peace through music, through positive lyrics, through taking a stand. I could go on more about it but Clinton took some videos and if he uploads them to facebook the show can speak for itself. I'll just add one thing though, I asked Nadia about it and she said the play depicted the lives of people in the innercity accurately. Curfews are enforced either by the police or by gang leaders in times of 'war'. If you're out after it and get caught by someone in a gang you'll likely be shot - if by the police - probably jail time.
Such passionate people, such a different world than the one I live in.
posted by Charles at 10:05 PM
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We wish we could have seen the play with you. It sounds like it was a great rendition. We liked the ones we saw there too. Did it start late?..Like 8:00 o'clock Jamaica time?
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