1. Derek Walcott’s «Pantomime»
Alejandro Mauriz
Iñigo Morales
Jorge montero

2. Saint Lucia
Capital: Castries
Pop:
Caribean Community Member

3. Named Saint Lucia by Columbus in 1502
Disputed by France and the United Kingdom since the XVI century
Granted autonomy in 1967 and independence in 1979

4. Government and politics
Queen Elisabeth II is the head of state and the United Kingdom maintains sovereignity over the island.
A prime minister is elected by democratic elections to act as governor of the island.

5. RESOURCES AND ECONOMY
Used to rely heavily on exports, specially bananas.
Nowadays, the main source of income is tourism, up to a 73% of the total national economy

7. Religion and culture
Christians (more than 90% of the population), mostly Roman Catholic.
Rastafarians and other minor religions and cults from Africa.

8. Strong influence of African tradition and culture
Calypso music

9. Derek Walcott’s Biography
Castries (Saint Lucia)

10. Derek Walcott’s Biography
Family
Grandmothers
Father
Twin brother
Mother
University of the West Indies
(Jamaica)
Trinidad: theatre and art critic.

11. Derek Walcott’s Biography
Tireless traveler.
Deeply-rooted in Caribbean Society.
Derek Walcott's singing

12. Derek Walcott’s Biography
Boston University: literature and creative writing.

13. Derek Walcott’s Biography
1959: Trinidad Theatre Workshop

14. Derek Walcott’s Works Main features:
Great verbal, visual and conceptual richness.
Reflects customs, tensions and history of the region colonized.
Use of symbolism and myths.
The use of Amerindian, African and European elements

15. Derek Walcott’s Works Main themes: History Politics Economy
Colonialism
Return to home
East Indies in the postcolonial period

16. Derek Walcott’s Works Literary production: Poetry: 19 works:
Omeros (1990)
Love after love (1986)

17. Love after love
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. - Derek Walcott

18. Derek Walcott’s Works Literary production: Plays: 23 works:
Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970)

19. Derek Walcott’s Works Pantomime (1978)
Representations:
1st representation by the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1978

20. Derek Walcott’s Works
Pantomime (1978)
Representations:
Play

21. Derek Walcott’s Works Pantomime (1978) Representations:
Last performance: in May of 2012 in the University of Essex (England)

22. Derek Walcott’s Literature Prizes
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1992
Grinzane Cavour, 2006
T.S. Elliot Prize, 2011

23. Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
What?
The most significant cultural event on the islands
When?
Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.
Why?
Laborers and slaves mimicking Frenchmen

24. Competitions Calypso Monarch Other competitions Trophy
Car
TT$
Other contracts
Other competitions
King & Queen of the March
Carnival Road March
Panorama
Limbo

25. Music Claves Steelpan Drums Created in Trinidad
The only non-electrical instrument invented in the 20th century.

26. Costumes
Decorated with feathers and sequins.
Wining

27. Participants dance through the streets
Costumes
Participants dance through the streets

28. Costumes Locals and tourists alike participate
Each band is led by a King and Queen

29. Characters
Negue Jadin
Pre-emancipation era
Field slave

30. Characters
Dame Lorraine
French Aristocracy
18th century.

31. Animal Characters Burrokeet Cow bands
(East Indian Hindu culture & South American mainland)
Cow bands

32. Burrokeet vs Zaldiko

33. Cow Bands vs. Zanpantzar

34. Devil Characters Jab Jab Jab Molassie Bookman Bat Pretty devil
(Smeared with grease or mud)
Bookman
Walz-like movements
Bat

35. Jab Molassie

36. Jab Jab

37. Bookman

38. Bat

39. Braggart Characters
Midnight Robber
Griot

40. Pierrot Grenade
Satire on Pierrot

41. Acrobat Charaters
Moko Jumbie
Stilts

42. Fertility Characters
Baby Dolls
Hysterical

43. Other Characters
Clowns

44. Other Characters
Musicians

45. Other Characters
Indians

46. Other Characters
Sailors

47. Questions for debate

48. What does pantomime mean?
Questions
What does pantomime mean?

49. A theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, which involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around Christmas
A dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.
An absurdly exaggerated piece of behaviour
An absurd or confused situation

50. Is there any difference between the first and the second act of the play?

51. Do you find any relation between Robinson Crusoe and Pantomime?

52. What role do the songs play in Pantomime?

53. Jackson: [… I was your shadow, I did what you did, boss, bwana, effendi, bacra, sahib…that was my pantomime. Every movement you made, your shadow copied… And you smiled at me as a child does smile at his shadow…]
[…But after a while the child does get frigthen of the shadow he make. He say to himself, that is too much obedience, I better hads stop. But the shadow don’t stop…]
[…Until it is the shadow that start dominating the child, it is the servant that start dominating the master, and that is the victory of the shadow, boss.]

54. Who are the child and the shadow?

55. Are there any differences between the way Jackson and Harry understand acting?
« Jackson: ‘You know, I am an actor, you know. I do all kind of acting, classical acting, Creole acting’»

56. Why the parrot is strangled by Jackson and thrown to the sea?
«Jackson: That parrot survive from a pre-colonial epoch, Mr Trewe, and if it want to last in Trinidad and Tobago, then it go have to adjust.»