 Ian
Valz is one of St.Martin's leading
playwrights and theater directors. Masquerade, his first
book containing his first three-act play of the same name, was published
in 1988 by House of Nehesi Publishers. In 1990, "Masquerade"
was short listed for Guyana's Literary Prize and beat out most of
the candidates to be placed runner-up to the winning playwright
Dr. Michael Gilkes. With good reviews in St.Martin, Guyana, Barbados
and in The Caribbean Writer, director Ron Robinson set out
from Guyana with a band of thespians from the international theater
(TTI) and took "Masquerade" across the Caribbean Sea to
Barbados, Antigua, and St.Kitts. "Masquerade" was the
first of Valz's four plays written in St.Martin where he has lived
and worked since 1984. Valz was born in Guyana in 1957. |
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Masquerade
A play by Ian Valz
Paperback, poetry, 148 pp. (1986)
Out of print; ISBN:
0-913441-06-6
Ian has woven a play of a
Caribbean family in Guyana with skill, sensitivity and love. It
is a clear insight into the politics of the country and the position
of emerging countries, the battle of young consciousness, of the
need for a politicall, social and economic identity laced with
the flavor and love in the families expressed as only the Caribbean
people can. Masquerade is a delight.
- Rufus Collins, Director of Interstage
Theatre, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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