Autobiography deon silvera
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Empathy shows that the audience is emotionally engaged and they probably have a hit on their hands. Yuh see what happen to mi big, nice friend.
Raise a toast to Deon Silvera ‘60 and feeling like 16’
Actress Deon Silvera is fit and fabulous at 60 and declares, not surprisingly, that she “feels like 16”.
Me can do all that a 16-year-old can do. The play is written by noted actor/director/script writer and broadcaster Dahlia Harris. But ah still going to sell her,” he declared.
The birthday girl, in her response, noted that she was truly humbled by the outpouring of love.
According to Lenford Salmon, Silvera was a “true friend”, and he shared how when he and his first wife had their first child, “Deon came by and washed baby clothes”.
And she is enjoying the offers that continue to roll in from friends to celebrate, having already had the time of her life at an all-inclusive in Montego Bay, arranged by close friends, and looking forward to fish at Port Royal and a trip to her home parish St Mary, courtesy of another set of well-wishers.
“I am happy that I am loved.
I’m sure I won’t be the only one going for seconds.
Show times are Tuesdays to Fridays at 8:30 p.m. The prize was the first dance with the birthday girl, not to recorded music, but rather to the sounds of singer and musician, Chris McDonald, performing I am Your Angel.
Staged at the Anglican Church Hall in Ocho Rios, like last year’s inaugural staging, the pioneers got their place in the spotlight.
Lifetime awards went to writers Kenny Salmon, Balfour Anderson, and Richard Mullings, as well as actors Georgette Wright and Deon Silvera.
Inducted into the Roots Theatre Hall of Fame were actors Garfield “Bad Boy Trevor” Reid, Daphne “Mae” Grandison, Amelia “Ann McKenzie” Henlon, and Clive Anthony Duncan (posthumously).
Everton Dawkins, founder and CEO of the Roots Theatre Foundation, addressed the importance of honouring roots theatre’s finest during an interview with the Jamaica Observer.
“We decided to put on the awards ceremony last year to honour some of those persons who have given their all to the theatre industry but were never recognised, because they said that we are roots plays, so it’s very important that we found a way to put ourselves out there so the wider public can see and know that we are really the ones carrying the culture far and wide,” he said.
Dawkins, a playwright who has been involved in theatre for 25 years, disclosed that his organisation hopes to install a panel of judges for next year’s event.
Their job will be to select the leading lights in roots theatre for 2023.
While the productions by trailblazers like producer Ralph Holness and playwright Ginger Knight packed halls across Jamaica, the roots play phenomenon during the 1980s and 1990s never earned true theatre respects.
He then explained to the curious what he meant, “At a lady living room in New York when we decide to do higglering.” He also hailed her as a true friend, pointing out that since he started his “little leather business”, Silvera has been his best customer. Deon Silvera confirmed that she was to be one of the actors, Vision has learnt, in this new offering on the small screen in Jamaica, W.I.
“It will be great”, she opined, without giving out much … Silvera asserted.
In a nutshell the story line is about a caregiver who has taken centre stage on the death of the wife of the patient she was nursing.
“Deon buy one, then a second and then she order a third, till me haffi seh, ‘No Deon man’. He added, “You can’t measure those things. I miss him so much,” she said, referring to Johnson.
Resplendent in blue, Silvera dazzled on the dance floor last Saturday evening, accompanied by Lenford Salmon, who was the announced winner of a raffle which nobody present knew anything about, and they made their concerns known.
If the funny moments didn’t keep getting in the way, it would certainly be possible to see this work as serious drama, and it certainly does have a disastrous conclusion, which will not be revealed here. On Boxing Day when I saw the play, the empathetic reactions varied from laughter, through distress to angry shouts at the actors.
The show’s success stems from the talent and decades of experience of key contributors, including the playwright and actors Dennis Titus and Deon Silvera, set designer Robin Baston, set builder Patrick Russell, and Quindell Ferguson, who assisted the director in dressing the set.
Toni-Kay ‘ T.K.’ Dawkins, the director, celebrated her 10th year in that capacity in October of last year, marking a decade in the role.