Demerara Jazz
A multi-layered story about an 80 year actor, playwright and theatre director, set in the UK and Guyana. Read by Yvonne Brewster and written by Jacqueline Crooks.
At the age of 80, Coral Samuels has written her first play, which she is also directing at the community theatre she has established in order to help disadvantaged people.
The man she has chosen to play American playwright James Baldwin is homeless. She knows he is struggling to find the control to communicate with an audience.
Her determination to help him revives memories of growing up in Guyana and how she tried so hard to help her young nephew to find ways to breathe freely. She also remembers coming to London and hearing the jazz players of the time using every breath in their body.
This story has been specially written by Jacqueline Crooks.
Producer: Martin Jenkins
Director: Marina Caldarone
Sound Designer: David Thomas
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4
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Broadcasts
- Thu 7 Jan 202110:45BBC Radio 4
- Thu 7 Jan 202119:45BBC Radio 4
