Drums and Colours

Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama is a play by Derek Walcott. It was commissioned by the University of the West Indies[1] for the opening of the First Federal Parliament of the West Indies on 23 April 1958, when the play was first performed in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,[2] in an open-air production involving actors and personnel from other parts of the Caribbean as part of a regional arts festival to celebrate the new (and short-lived) West Indies Federation.[3] Drums and Colours was published in a special issue of Caribbean Quarterly in 1961.[4]

References

  1. Robert D. Hamner, Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros, University of Missouri Press, 1997, p. 20.
  2. Derek Walcott biography at Poetry Foundation.
  3. Martin Banham (ed.), "Trinidad and Tobago", in The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 2000 reprint edition, p. 1125.
  4. Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 7, Nos. 1–2, March-June 1961, 104 pp. See John Robert Lee (ed.), Bibliography of St. Lucian Creative Writing: Poetry, Prose, Drama by St. Lucia Writers, 1948–2013, Castries, Saint Lucia: Cultural Development Foundation, 2013, p. 66.


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