The Reichhold Caribbean
Repertory Company

First Class Professional Production of Caribbean Plays

The 1996-97 season at the Reichhold will be the third year for The Reichhold Caribbean Repertory Company. The only theater of its kind in the world, The Repertory Company is dedicated to presenting professional productions of Caribbean plays.

In dedicating the center that opened in his name in 1978, Henry Reichhold listed as one of its objectives: "To develop professional theater, dance and musical companies that will perform at the Center and tour other areas in the West Indies." The current Reichhold Director, David Edgecombe, a well know Caribbean playwright, is the first director to bring that vision to fruition. The inaugural production of the Rep Company opened the 1994-95 season with David Edgecombe's Coming Home to Roost, which was held over. The Company just ended its second season with a three play Summer Festival Theater featuring the world premier of Caryl Phillips' Hotel Cristobel, Trevor Rhone's classic Smile Orange (The Center was proud to have Mr. Rhone come and direct the play), and Cecil "Blazer" Williams' provocative I Don't want to Bathe. The plays toured to St. Croix and were performed there at the Island Center, a first for the Virgin Islands.

Playwrights are welcomed to submit plays to the RCA at the address listed below. Trained professional actors, directors and designers are recruited locally and abroad. If you're interested in learning more or working with the Rep company please contact one of our staff.

The RCA hopes not just to provide good entertainment for appreciative audiences, but meaningful work for theater artists and technicians. Theater business is big business. What starts as a stage play can evolve into television and cinema, two areas in which the Caribbean is not well represented. In ten years' time, we could be enjoying the benefits of a multi-million dollar industry. Professional Caribbean theater is an idea whose time has come!



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