An extraordinarily impressive production and artistic performance

On Sunday night I was privileged to attend Musings of a Poet - 2 at the Cultural Centre, produced by the National Drama Company and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, written by Al Creighton Jnr., also Artistic Director, and directed by Mark Luke-Edwards.

This was an extraordinarily impressive production and artistic performance of drama, poetry, dance and song, worthy, in my humble view, of a Broadway Production in Manhattan.

In order, I believe, to emphasise the intimacy of communication between the performers and the audience, the production was presented on a smaller stage built for the occasion on the upstairs floor of the Cultural Centre, accommodating a smaller audience than the full Cultural Centre.

For me, and I believe all who were privileged to be in the audience, this production met all the requirements of Theatre: entertainment, relevance and exceptional standards of performance.

I was hugely disappointed, however, that not a single member of our Cabinet, not even our Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Hon. Charles Ramson, was there to see, hear and appreciate the enormous professional talents and skills that our country has to offer.

The production featured one of the finest musical renditions I have heard of our National Anthem. It addressed society’s ills, spirituality and myths, comedy and concluded with a Finale depicting the variety of our ethnicities forged together as one nation.

This production should be staged again as a Presidential Command Performance and which I recommend to our Minister responsible for Culture.