Errol John's play has had a strange history. It won an Observer Play competition in 1957, was optioned by a commercial management and insultingly mistreated, and has enjoyed a fitful afterlife. But it ...

In 1958 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl made a huge impact as one of the first Caribbean plays, possibly the first to be written in the Creole patois of Trinidad, to break through on the West End stage. Errol ...

"No peace! No peace at all in this yard!" Sophia is fed up with all the trouble that her neighbours and family members cause her. Ram John Holder as Old Mack, landlord. Mavis upstairs brings home a ...

Moon on a Rainbow Shawl is a play about relationships in a close-knit community. In soap-opera style, we follow the lives of 14 people. But instead of the East End, we're in the West Indies. This is ...

Moon on a Rainbow Shawl presents a troubled Trinidad in the years before independence. A post war era when hope and prosperity seemed as far off as the moon of the play. Action revolves around six ...

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