Sweet sugar rage / produced by the Sistren Theatre Collective ; co-directed by Honor Ford-Smith and Harclyde Walcott.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Ford Smith, Honor, director.

Walcott, Harclyde, director.

Bell, Winston, composer.

Young, Philip, editor.

Beuthner, Reginald, editor.

Dhunjibhoy, Roshan, editor.

St. Juste, Franklyn, director of photography.

Swaby, John, director of photography.

Sistren (Organization), producer.

Newsreel (Firm), distributor.

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sistren (Organization).

Women sugar workers--Jamaica.

Women sugar workers.

Sugar workers--Jamaica--Social conditions.

Sugar workers.

Women--Jamaica--Social conditions.

Women.

Popular culture--Jamaica.

Popular culture.

Theater and society--Jamaica.

Theater and society.

Folk drama, Jamaican.

Social conditions.

Jamaica.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Third World Newsreel, [2008]

System Details:

DVD ; NTSC.

digital

optical

stereo

NTSC

video file

DVD video

Summary:

The Sistren Theatre Collective is an independent popular theatre company which has developed since 1977 from the initiative of working-class women in Jamaica. Using drama workshops and original plays the group works at advancing awareness on questions affecting women, particularly Caribbean women. In this film the group concerns itself with women sugar cane workers in and around "New Sugar Town," Clarendon, Jamaica. After interviewing the women in the fields, the group analyses its findings on conditions in the sugar belt and the scenario for a play emerges. Their performances speak directly to the daily experiences of women -- the least empowered workers, who labor long hours for low wages with no benefits or rights to organize for better conditions. Using role-play and interviews with female cane workers, the collective develops dramatizations which analyze social issues and pinpoint their concerns.

Credits:

Camera, John Swaby, Franklyn St. Juste ; editing, Roshan Dhunjibhoy, Reginald Beuthner, Philip Young ; songs composed by Winston Bell and the Sistren Theatre Collective.

Notes:

DVD release of the 1985 documentary film.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

OCLC:

262285479