Bøger af Glenville Lovell

On this sliver of a paradise in the Eastern Caribbean, four young friends find themselves caught up in a struggle for their very survival. Their friend and mentor has been killed, and another one of their friends is on the run from the police. Can they trust the snooping reporter mining for a scoop? Is that all he wants? And what about the detective who comes offering gifts for information? What is the price for loyalty? On the Block takes us into the lives of these four teenagers working through issues of trust and the pain of emotional and physical abuse to harness the insecurities which challenge their development into adulthood. Despite the chaos around them, they use their wits and their intelligence to navigate dark waters, while forging deeper bonds of love and friendship.

The construction of the Panama Canal affected a large number of Barbadian families. It was certainly very much part of the consciousness of Barbados. However, our literature has not really explored this event which is of important socio-cultural significance. Panama Silver does this. It explores the relationships between Barbadians displaced to the Canal, the compromises into which their circumstances forced them, their attitudes toward people working there who came from other places, their attitude towards Barbados and the state of the society that drove them there. The play begins in 1912 and ends when the Canal is handed over in 1914. It synthesizes the hopes, the despair, the longings, the frustrations, the dreams of hundreds of people bound by a system over which they have no control, geared to the accomplishment of a task the fulfilment of which in no way answers to their needs, and for which they will not even be thanked, nor their dead remembered. And yet, there is a pride in a job well done. This play is full of the contradictions of the human spirit with its capacity for good and evil, its easy movement between laughter and tears, unselfishness and self-centeredness, kindness and cruelty. These contradictions and the complications of the story, form the warp and woof with which the playwright weaves his tapestry of an era much neglected in our chronicling.

The rising cases of rejection and ostracism suffered by LGBT persons in Barbados made Simone's Place a timely production when it was first performed there in 2014. The play is a story of love, acceptance and the need for connection and belonging. Though it focuses on issues of gender identity, the question of class is ever present. The central character is a transgender owner of the club/bar, Simone's Place, where she performs Nina Simone jazz standards as Lady Simone. Despite her upper-class roots, the deeply spiritual Lady Simone has become advisor and healer to many of the broken souls who drink in and hang around the bar; at the same time she is most in need of love and healing herself. The central figure's paradox binds and balances the play as each character struggles with the dilemma of trying to be free in a society where keeping secrets and 'acting right' is the key to survival.