January 2017 visual arts magazine barbados

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She has performed in: Jean Genet’s The Blacks in Jamaica, dir. Lloyd Reckord. Strindberg’s The Stronger in Barbados and Antigua, dir. Monica Procope. Peter Laurie’s The Confession in Barbados, St. Lucia and Montserrat, dir. Merle Niles. Praise Song for Bruce in Barbados and for Carifesta in Suriname 2003, dir. Harclyde Walcott. Olive Senior’s You T’ink I Mad, Miss? dir. Earl Warner. Hot Flashes dir. Henk Tjon. Ms. Phillips is a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics [IATC], and attended the Tenth International Theatre Festival in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in April 2013. She continues to write critical reviews of local plays for her Facebook page Theatre Eyes. *She has written several articles on theatre published in Critical Stages the online journal of IATC and Conjunto, a Cuban magazine on theatre in the Caribbean and Latin America. Her interest as a researcher is in the Caribbean aesthetic or the Caribbean mode of theatre performance. Ms. Phillips has written on the work of the late Barbadian director Earl Warner. Her unpublished thesis is entitled: Making the Language Sing: The Caribbean Aesthetic and Earl Warner’s Theatrical Vision in Four Plays 1991-1996. She writes reviews of plays in Barbados which have been printed in the Nation newspaper and she also publishes on her Facebook page Theatre Eyes. Along with Victor Edwards of Trinidad, she is a founding member of the Caribbean Secondary Schools’ Drama Festival. She is also a founding member of the Barbados Association of Drama Educators and is a Board member of the Earl Warner Trust (Barbados). Ms. Phillips serves as an External Examiner for the CSEC Theatre Arts Practical examinations and for CAPE Performing Arts Practical examinations. Ms. Phillips has received medals for her poetry and essays at NIFCA . She is also a published poet, short fiction writer and dramaturge.


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