BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AS part of life’s journey, ‘rock bottom’ experiences come that can deliver such a blow to one’s psyche that it seems an impossible task to climb the hill of determination back to more comfortable and fulfilling path; but it is not impossible!
This is the message that playwright Kesha Isaac is endeavouring to send in her newest production – From the Valley to the Mountain RANGE.
The musical-type production is scheduled to be presented to the public on August 19 and 20, 2011 at ECCB’s Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium and will feature an amalgam of the arts, including dancing, drama and singing.
Isaac, who has penned, produced and directed Silver Lined Verse, Cross Roads and Hope’s Journey, explained that the current production would highlight six main characters, portrayed by the six members of singing sensation RANGE.
She explained that they were the inspiration for the production.
“The guys that are in the play, they belong to the singing group RANGE. I saw them perform at CDT’s last dance production and it struck me that I wanted to do a production with them, and the idea just rolled off.
“The play is about six young men who represent six different personalities in society, and we see them go through six different situations that anybody could go through in what we call valley experiences, and we see them hit basically rock bottom for the most part. And throughout the play we see them go through that and come out of it with the help of divine intervention basically, and we get them back up on the mountain top.”
The cast has been engaged in three and a half months of rigorous practice and, according to Isaac, its members are putting final touches on their performance which promises not to be soon forgotten.
If nothing else is gleaned from the production, Isaac said she wants her audience to know and remember that “in life bad things happen and sometimes things look really bleak and we can get to that point where we hit rock bottom, but once we have hope we always stand a chance of rising back up at some point, even if it takes a while”.
In explaining why the production will be held over two nights, Isaac noted that it is the norm for theatrical productions to run for “a season” and, since that doesn’t happen in St. Kitts Nevis, she is endeavoruing to inculcate a culture amongst locals where they would have the option of attending such a production on a night convenient to them.
