Trinidad Sisters
By Mustapha Matura
Year staged: 1988
Opening night: 11/02/1988
Theatre Company: The Tricycle Theatre
Staged in: Donmar Warehouse
Cast Size: 11
Synopsis
Colonial Trinidad 1939. Three sisters endure a mundane but privileged life in the capital, Port of Spain. Living with their simpleton brother and his domineering wife, the women pass the time entertaining and being entertained by the local Volunteer Regiment. They occupy their lives with empty marriages and petty liaisons whilst dreaming of returning to their adopted home country Cambridge, England where they spent their cosmopolitan youth.
But hopes of emigrating to Britain are soon shattered as the European war escalates into a global conflict, Port of Spain is bombed and the Trinidadian soldiers are called to serve King, country and Empire.
Original Cast
Anton Phillips
Taylor
Patrick Drury
Version
Pauline Black
Marsha
Okon Jones
Kelly
Suzette Llewellyn
Nova
Joan-Ann Maynard
Olga
Joanne Campbell
Irene
Ram John Holder
Dr Charles
Chris Tajah
St Clair
Isabelle Lucas
Florrie
Hepburn Graham
Andre
Production Team
Nicolas Kent
Director
David Colmer
Lighting
Poppy Mitchell
Designer
Chas Stoddard
Sound
Additional Materials
Press and Publicity Management File
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Photographic Negatives
Ref: THM/374/1/191
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Production Management File
Ref: THM/317/3/1/52
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Production Photographs
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Display Photographs
Ref: THM/317/5/2/14
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