The Little Theatre Movement's National Pantomime is to celebrate 60 years of service to the Jamaican theatre with an exhibition slated to be opened at Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library, Tom Redcam Drive, Kingston tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. The display will be comprised of photographs, costumes, props and other memorabilia, will continue until Saturday, November 25.
Minister of Education, Senator Burchell Whiteman, will officially declare the exhibit open.
As part of the celebration, there will be a programme titled 'Give Thanks', with the Pantomime Company and Friends at the Little Theatre on Sunday, November 26, beginning 4:0 p.m.
The Jamaica Regiment Band will perform, under the director of bandmaster, Roy Wade.
Afterwards guests will be invited into the theatre for a programme of readings, music and dance by 'friends' of Little Theatre Movement, including the National Dance Theatre Company. That show will be open free to the public.
The pantomime received international recognition recently with the inclusion of a picture from the 1999/2000 Pantomime 'Bugsie The Millennium Bug', in the U.S. college textbook 'World Theatre and Drama', by Greenwald, Schultz and Pomo. The photograph illustrates the chapter 'The Theatre of Africa And The African Diaspora'.
Eastern Connecticut State University also added another honour with acquisition of 10 Pantomime scripts by Barbara Gloudon for the Colin Bennett Caribbean Collection of the J. Eugene Smith Library on the campus.
The 60th Pantomime 'Jack And The Macca Tree' is being prepared to open Boxing Day, December 26, at the Ward Theatre, downtown Kingston.
