LTM Pantomime Company in performance THE BROOKLYN Center for the Performing Arts 1,200-seat theatre was sold out last Saturday night for a performance of the production Augus Mawnin, presented by the Little Theatre Movement (LTM) Pantomime Company. The capacity crowd gave a thunderous ovation to the Company as it told the story of a group of slaves who ran away from the plantation to find the day of freedom.
With music, songs, poetry, dance, colourful sets and costumes, the production, directed by Brian Heap and scripted by Barbara Gloudon, was presented at the invitation of the Brooklyn Center as part of its Caribbean Celebration. The Centre's Caribbean Celebr-ations began last November with a tribute to the great Trinidadian Calypsonian, Lord Kitchener, and continued with a presentation Christmas in the Caribbean, featuring leading Caribbean entertainers. The Pantomime Company was selected to close the series.
The Pantomime Company, has put its current production Jack and the Macca Tree on hold for a week to facilitate its New York appearance. Its two-hour high-energy performance held the audience spellbound.
At an after-show reception hosted by the theatre management, Jamaica's Consul General to New York thanked the performers and the LTM "for an evening of inspiration and enjoyment, which made one proud to be Jamaican." He was presented with a framed photograph of a scene from the show. A similar presentation was made by the LTM to Mr. Noel Mignott and Miss Diana Willis of the Jamaica Tourist Board in appreciation of their support in the staging of the event.
A CD of songs for Augus Mawnin, produced by Grub Cooper for the LTM, was introduced. Copies were presented to Jamaica's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Patricia Durrant, Miss Julie Parales, executive producer of the Brooklyn Center and Congressman Ron Perry, who is a Jamaican by birth. Dr. Karl Rodney, member of the Board of the Brooklyn Center also joined in congratulating the Pantomime Company.
