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Posted: Friday 10 June, 2016 at 1:35 PM

BanGarang hits the St. Kitts stage tomorrow night!!

Keith ’Shebada’ Ramsey (second from right) and Iris Terri Salmon (far right) with officials of the Champs for Charity Foundation
By: Terresa McCall, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – LEGENDARY Jamaican actor Keith ‘Shebada’ Ramsey along with his cast members are fired up and ready to present, for the first time in the Federation, Jamaican playwright David Tulloch’s most recent stage play, BanGarang. The event takes places tomorrow evening at 17 Degrees!

     

    Shebada is no stranger to the St. Kitts stage but this time around, RBT Productions – under whose umbrella the play is staged – is partnering with charitable organisation Champs for Charity to host the event.

     

    Champs for Charity was founded by Shirley Julius with a view to, as its mission states, “helping to build stronger communities in St. Kitts and Nevis by lending a helping hand through social, financial and educational assistance in order to effect positive change.”

     

    The cast of the play was on hand yesterday afternoon (Jun. 9) at the Sugar Bay Club where a press conference was held and appeared eager to give patrons a well-deserved bang for their buck. 

     

    The play centres actress Monique Ellis who plays the role of Pearl, a higgler by day and a prostitute by night. It has strong underpinning themes of love, corruption, hustling, ambition and deceit.

     

    Shebada explained that while the play brings much hilarity, it comes with a message and it is the role of the viewers to glean from the underlying messages.  

     

    “We do speak about life endeavours and things that go on in our day-to-day (lives). So yes it is packed with laughter and stuff like that but we do have a message and that’s the message we want to bring across. We don’t just want people to come and laugh, laugh, laugh, and leave with nothing because that wouldn’t be a show either. Because everything that we do, see or listen to comes with a message. …Negative or positive, is what we get from it or take from it…”

     

    Award-winning cast member Christopher McFarlane – who plays the role of a corrupt politician – indicated that although BanGarang is a Jamaican play, it addresses issues which affect Caribbean people.

     

    “…We look at living and life and how it affects us and as people of Caribbean descent or in the Caribbean, we all have similar needs and similar traits and similar ways of dealing with our issues and similar government issues. And we look at government a lot in this production and how it affects our lives and how circumstances would lead us to do things and things that we can do to triumph over these circumstances. So I know that people here in St. Kitts and Nevis will understand and will actually see traits of their own lives and they can reflect on those and see how they can better themselves in the future. So we are kind of together.”

     

    The other cast members are: award-winning Jamaican veteran actress Iris ‘Terri’ Salmon who plays the part of a power-hungry Chinese woman, Patrick ‘Diggle’ Smith who plays the part of a police man who seems unable to decide whether he is corrupt or not, Junior Williams and playwright Tulloch.

     

    The Champs for Charity team has indicated that the funds from this event would be pumped back into the community by providing financial aid to those parents/guardians who fall below a certain income level.

     

    Tickets for the event are on sale $60 since the early bird special of $50 expired on June 3. They can be purchased at Harpers Office Depot, the Culturama Office, the Nevis Cultural Development Foundation and the Central Gas Station.

     

    The curtain open on the event at 8:30pm.

     

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