Bermuda School Theatre Group Win In Barbados
[Updated] The Bermuda cast that represented the island at the Caribbean Secondary School Festival in Barbados made an outstanding showing – winning a raft of awards including Outstanding Performance, Best Set Design, Best Music, Outstanding Acting Male and Outstanding Acting Female.
The cast included students from the Bermuda High School, Berkeley Institute, CedarBridge Academy, Saltus Grammar School, and Warwick Academy.
Slideshow of the students preview showing in Bermuda earlier this month:
Eight islands participated, with casts from Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, BVI, Barbados, Anguilla, St Vincent & the Grenadines all taking part in the event, which was held in Barbados from December 8th – 15th.
Chairman of the BSSF Committee Conchita Ming said, “On Thursday night our cast learned that they were chosen as one of the three best plays of the Festival, so they did a repeat performance on Friday night.”
The awards were presented last night and the Bermuda cast won the following:
- Outstanding Performance: Bermuda
- Best Music: Dylan Hollis
- Outstanding Acting Male: Marquedelle Rodriguez
- Outstanding Acting Female: India Wilson
- Best Dancer: Marcus Smith
- Best Use of Production Elements: Bermuda
- Best Directing: Alan Smith
- Best Set Design: Bermuda
- Most Innovative Set Design: Bermuda [Margaret Potts]
- Best Ensemble: Bermuda [Dylan Hollis, Marquedelle Rodriguez, Marcus Smith, Tess Spencer, Ashanti Stovell, Treasure Tannock, Jade Weaver, India Wilson]
They performed Dr Kim Dismont Robinson’s play, Emancipation: A Love Story, which was directed by Alan C. Smith.
According to the programme [PDF], “The play is a powerful work of historical fiction, offering a glimpse into the physical and psychological experiences of the Africans who eventually became African-Bermudians during the course of a transatlantic experience that begins in Angola more than 500 years ago.”
The cast performing a preview of the play earlier this month:
The participation in the festival was sponsored by the Ministry of Education and coordinated by The Bermuda Shakespeare Schools Festival.
Update 10.07am: The BSSF released a photo of the Bermuda cast taken last night at the closing ceremony.
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I am not surprised to read this at all. I saw the play and I just knew that Bermuda would win the competition. Congratulations to Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson!!
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the organizers,the cast performers and all their chaperons,and Dr.Kim Dismont Robinson for a performance second to none.
Our Children are our future and through the performance and art they bring us world class stage theatrics, with reality of how far we have come as a people, especially with the likes of our public school students combined with our private school student’s, that is unity within itself.
So i salute you all but had to respond to Ms. Laverne Furbert who seemingly just thought it necessary to thank Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson, who clearly did a outstanding job, but it would have been nice if Ms. Furbert could have paid recognition to our performers.
So I hope she comes back to Bernews and add onto her remark’s to congratulate all who participated, and to say that she knew that Bermuda would win was in my view another dumb comment, due to the fact that, all the performances was of great quality. so Bermuda did well and we are proud but all the young people who who participated regardless of origin, did extremely well. Ask me how I know
Thank You Bernews once again for highlighting some of the positives that is going on in our community and abroad with our young people, we have some good young folk still in our country and positive future role models to look forward to.
Congrats to all who participated and was part of bringing this together. I’d love to see the performance in Bermuda if the opportunity ever presented itself.
@Laverne: How didi you know Bermuda would win? Didi you see the other entrants work? I know and you know that the Bermuda entry was a strong one and that is all we know.
@skink. It is a crying shame that your comment on a positive story about Bermuda’s youth, is to respond snidely to L. Furbert. Jeez Grinch much? I WENT to the performances in Barbados, saw the performances and I also KNEW by the quality of BDAs performance that they would win. All of the entrants did an admirable job, but our source material, directors and actors were of such high quality that they were literally a tough act to beat…pun intended. Second to seeing Bermuda perform was the pride of to sitting in the audience and see the Bermudian expats in Barbados that came out on droves to support their fellow countrymen. Well done all around.
Well done ALL. We are so proud of your commitment and pursuit of excellence. I think it is rare for a group of this size to be assembled and remain such a harmonious unit. The spirit of this ensemble is exuded in their performance. I am grateful that my daughter Ashanti has been blessed with this opportunity to represent Bermuda.GIVE THANKS.
Fantastic. Bermuda should be proud of all involved.
Well done to ALL involved!!
We Have the talent to do even BIGGER things BERMUDA!!!
Congrats to all involved always good seeing the positives of the youth being highlighted. There were a few other categories which to me seemed to be almost the same but with different names which was won by other countries eg
Best Overall Performance
Best Ensamble Acting
Most Creative Presentation
Best Set Design
Outstanding Actress Award
Outstanding Director
Or I guess they had outstanding then best in order of ascendancy??