Yvonne Brewster is founder member of the Barn Theatre (Jamaica) and Talawa Theatre Company (UK) & has worked in theatre, film, television, radio, and universities as a director, lecturer and actor. She is a Fellow of Rose Bruford College, Central School of Speech and Drama and the Royal Society of Arts, a Licentiate of the Royal College of Music. She received the OBE for Services to the Arts (1993) and an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University (2001). She edited three collections in the Methuen series Black Plays.

• Contents Introduction 7 Yvonne Brewster Introduction to Maskarade 20 Sylvia Wynter and Yvonne Brewster Maskarade: A 'Jonkunnu' Musical Play 23 Sylvia Wynter Introduction to Bedward 137 Louis Marriott Bedward: A Play in Two Acts 140 Louis Marriott Melodic lines for songs by Noel Dexter 204 Introduction to The Creatures 211 Honor Ford-Smith The Creatures 223 Cicely Waite-Smith Notes on Contributors 254 Acknowledgements 256"

While [Mixed Company] constitutes a celebratory commemoration, it is itself a laudable act of salvage and transmission... an unusually lively reading experience... Maskarade's colourful, symbolic theatricality recalls Sean O'Casey or early Lorca. Bedward is classically balanced between prayer and cross-questioning; home truths bite with a bitter wit. Finally The Creatures describes natural amorality in the bird and the lizard, while in man's voice rises "the tide of a lifetime breaking loose"