Staging a great play is pretty much like creating a good cocktail: it’s all about the right ingredients in the right proportion. Since re-introducing the University Players, Director Brian Heap has usually stuck with a great recipe, that has often produced delicious results.

Dr. Brian Heap is about to shift gears in his career.

“Life is a dream and a promise.” This line, heavily coated in bitterness and loss and delivered by Lilian Martin toward the end of Departure in the Dark, captures the essence of the play.

They came... They acted... They won some awards. The Jamaica Youth Theatre (JYT) were amongst the most triumphant when the curtains closed on the 2012 Tallawah Festival, at its long-time home at the Phillip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, UWI Mona.

Jamaica is yet to recover from the political violence spawned in the late 1960s that in a sense peaked in the bloody 1980 elections which drowned the country in a sea of blood.