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1993/94 LTM National Pantomime
ANANSI COME BACK |
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| Barbara Gloudon Directed by Brian Heap Music by Grub Cooper Set by Denise Forbes Costumes by Anya Gloudon Props by Symonne Coombs Movement by Prof. Rex Nettleford & George Howard Lighting by George Carter and Michael McDonald |
The
Story Bredda
Anansi has been in "Foreign" for the longest while.
Since he's away, the community of Yam Hill led by Mrs Jestina
Mandora, flourishes, growing good yams for local use and export.
In the adjacent community of Coco Bump, where the people do not
like o work but would rather "chuck garbage" Bredda
Tacoma, Anansi's old sporting partner, is the Mayor. When Anansi
comes home, accompanied by his son Peabo, (a cricket fanatic)
they take up residence in Coco Bump with Tacoma, his wife and
daughter Tigromatic who soon sets her cap for Peabo.Anansi comes back to find no good yam in Coco Bump so he issues Mrs Mandora three challenges - all aimed at getting hold of the Yam Hill crop. Being Anansi, he cannot help resorting to "trickifie" and "samfie" to win. So strange things begin to happen. At the annual Yam Festival, where Yam Hill has always been the winner, Jenny Mandora tipped to be the queen of the Yam Festival, loses to Tigromatic. The contest for Best Yam, another expected walk-over for yam Hill, is lost to Coco Bump. The final event - a grand cricket match - is the last chance for Yam Hill to regain its glory, under the captaincy of Cunny Moore. Anansi is set to fix that too - until the Yam Spirit, whom he has betrayed, decides to take a hand. Anansi is caught out, tried and makes a run for the housetop "where Spider belong". But being Anansi, he returns in time to say sorry and dance in the Big Ritual to celebrate another bountiful Yam Harvest where surprising things happen once again.
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