Say Hallelujah
By Jimi Rand
Year staged: 1977
Theatre Company: Keskidee Arts Centre; 1970
Staged in: Keskidee Arts Centre
Cast Size: 10
Synopsis
Say Hallelujah is a comedy set around the day to day exploits of a long suffering West Indian shopkeeper D’Coursey and his zany family. D’Coursey’s daughter aspires to be a famous actress, while his son plots a street revolution. His wife is forming a close bond with a clergyman, and her newfound religious duties involve moving her husband’s shop stock to the vestry. All the while the lodger, a lawyer in training, makes every family matter a great deal more complicated with their philosophies. One day, when a prayer meeting turned argument in the living room seemingly sends a pregnant customer into labour, decisions have to be made as to the family’s future.
Original Cast
Witty Forde
Boy Blue
Allister Bain
D'Coursey
Locita Lijertwood
Matilda
Sherry Reid
Dorothy
Nadia Cattouse
Verona
Queenie Cavette
Penny
Merdelle Jordine
Yvonne
Christopher Gilbert
Sebastian
Anton Phillips
Wentworth
Imruh Caesar
Reverend Stephens
Production Team
Malcolm Frederick
Director