Global InformationMarina Ama Omowale Maxwell information
Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell | |
|---|---|
| Born | San Fernando, Trinidad |
| Nationality | Trinidadian |
| Other names | Marina Maxwell; Marina Maxwell Omowale |
| Education | Michigan State University |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, performer, poet, novelist |
Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell, also known as Marina Maxwell and Marina Maxwell Omowale,[1] is a Trinidadian playwright, performer, poet and novelist. She was associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement in London in the late 1960s, working with Edward Kamau Brathwaite, while back in the Caribbean she was responsible for developing the experimental Yard Theatre,[2] which was "an attempt to place West Indian theatre in the life of the people [...] to find it in the yards where people live and are."[3] The concept of "yard theatre" was considered revolutionary, according to Brathwaite, because it not only "rejected/ignored... traditional/ colonial Euro-American theatre," it also "provided a viable and creative alternative."[4][5]
- ^ The Artists Coalition of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT).
- ^ Alison Donnell, Sarah Lawson Welsh (eds), The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature, p. 349.
- ^ Stephen Voyce, Poetic Community: Avant-Garde activism and Cold War Culture, University of Toronto Press, 2013, pp. 158–159.
- ^ Brathwaite, Edward Kamau (June 1978). "The Love Axe/L: Developing a Caribbean Aesthetic 1962-1974". Bim. 63: 181–192.
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