The University Players, the resident theatre company of the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of the West Indies, Mona will be staging an English translation of Aimé Césaire’s play A Tempest (Une tempête) from May 15-25. The opening performance of A Tempest will be presented at the Philip Sherlock Centre, UWI on Thursday May 15 at 8:00 p.m. It continues for a total of eight performances until May 25, playing Thursday to Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 6 pm.

Although this production was planned some time ago, it now proves to be timely, since it will now serve as both a memorial as well as a celebration of the life and work of Césaire, who died on April 17th at the age of 94 in his native Martinique. A Tempest is being staged as part of the Mona campus celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the University of the West Indies, of which Aimé Césaire was made an Honorary Graduate in 1974.

Featured performers include: Rooney Chambers, Nadean Rawlins, Chris McFarlane, Nadia Khan, Melward Morris, Jean-Paul Menou, O’Neil Peart, Noelle Kerr and Canute Fagan, plus an all-star supporting cast, almost all of whom have appeared in previous University Players’ productions.