A History of Theatre in Guyana: 18002000

From the beginnings of European theater in 19th-century Georgetown and the early 20th-century emergence of new African and Indian Guyanese middle-class theater to the 1950s explosion of an ethnically diverse and socially committed theater and the post-1980s struggle to maintain theater in spite of an economic depression, this study details the history of Guyanese theater, including public entertainment, state organized public spectacles, and the serious repertory theater of Carifesta and the Theatre Guild of Guyana.