Research Catalog

Title

For the Reckord : a collection of three plays by Barry Reckord / edited by Yvonne Brewster ; with contributions fro Diana Athill ... [et al.].

Author

Reckord, Barry

Publication

London : Oberon Books, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brewster, Yvonne
• Athill, Diana

Description

254 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Barry Reckford was among the first modern Caribbean playwrights to have work produced in England, in a period when black writing was being 'discovered' there, and yet his place in the history of bloack playwriting in the United Kingdom goes almost unrecognised. His first play Della (1953) under the title Flesh to a tiger was produced at the Royal Court in 1958. He wrote several more plays for the Royal Court in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His achievements in England laid a solid foundation for later emerging Caribbean playwrights such as Trinadian Mustafa Matura, Guayanese Michael Abbensetts and Jamaican Alfred Fagon in the 1970s, all of whom appreciated how well Reckord's work had paved their way forward. For the Reckord is an opportunity for the growing number of new playwrights, especially but not exclusively black, to read and learn from Reckord's work or simply enjoy the sophistication and insight of his delivery, characterisation, politics and plot"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.

Series Statement

Oberon modern playwrights

Uniform Title

Modern playwrights

Alternative Title

• Flesh to a tiger.
• Skyvers.
• White witch.

Subject

• Schools > Drama
• Jamaica > Drama

Genre/Form

Drama

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Flesh to a tiger -- Skyvers -- White witch.

ISBN

• 9781849430531
• 1849430535

OCLC

• 693522012
• SCSB-12898418

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library