Tanya Batson-Savage | Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
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.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
Dr. Brian Heap is about to shift gears in his career.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Thursday, May 9th, 2013
“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.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
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.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Sunday, October 14th, 2012
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.