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Link Show warms for 25th anniversary

Feb 01, 2009 News

Link Show 25, a silver anniversary production, will hit the stage of the National Cultural Centre with a gala performance on Thursday, February 19, and will run for almost a week.

The Theatre Company has brought on board its co-founder, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento of GEMS Theatre Production, to team up and present this special silver anniversary production, ‘ THE CELLINK – LINK SHOW 25’

Mrs Madhoo-Nascimento, the Executive Producer of Link Show 25, was last involved in The Link Show in February 2001. This show enjoyed 16 performances at the National Cultural Centre.

With her experience in producing, she is hoping for a repeat of that.

Ron Robinson is the executive director of the production. Assisting him is Tivia Collins, who was a trainee director for the Carifesta Theatre Workshop. Nasimul Hussein, Howard Lorrimer and other veterans of Link Shows past will be displaying their talent also.

A number of trainees who were in the Carifesta Theatre Workshop are being given an opportunity to work in this significant production. Production Managers Christopher Jacques and Celicia Pariag were students of Madhoo-Nascimento’s Production Management class.

Persons in costumes, hair and makeup and set will also be drawn from the classes held between June and August, 2008.

The cast and production team of Link Show 25 consist of many old timers and a few who were in the first Link Show. Margaret Lawrence and Howard Lorrimer appeared in the first Link Show, and will be in Link Show 25.

Other actors in the current cast and who were in previous Link Shows of the 80’s and 90’s are Nasim Hussein, Godfrey Naughton, Rajan Tiwari, and Sherry Ann Dyal. More recent additions have been Lavonne George, Sheldon Braithwaite, Michael Ignatius, Sonia Yarde, Leslyn Lasley, and Nicky Moonsammy, while newcomers to this production are Lyndon ‘Jumbie ‘ Jones, Kirk Jardine, Simone Dowding, Ajay Baksh, Troy Parboo and Simone Persaud. Trainees from Carifesta workshop are Kijana Lewis, Tivia Collins and Tishandra Inniss. A number of young trainee students are involved in the production to allow them to further enhance their dramatic skills. Some, on realizing their potential, are being given fairly substantial roles that will really surprise the audience.

These are Andrew Liverpool, Theressa Tyson, Abigail Brewer, Christine Jeremiah, Tonaisea Robertson, Tiffany Gray, Kwesi Edmondson and Clement Standard.

Classique Dancers will be executing satirical dances in the production. Each night, there will be twenty-five meaningful give-aways to mark the silver anniversary.

Listeners can win free tickets to the show by listening to any GT&T-sponsored programme and answering the questions.

The production opens with a Gala performance on February 19. The Gala performance will be preceded by a cocktail. Tickets for that opening show are $2,500 each. Seating is limited to the Recital Hall. There will be a Matinee show, at which seats will be $800.

The Matinee Show is hoping to encourage Berbicians, who can cross at anytime on the Berbice River Bridge, residents in Linden, and West Coast Demerara.

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