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The Caribbean is a region particularly rich in cultural performances that, often enough, have been created from the fragments of older and/or other cultural conventions. In his 1980 play, Pantomime, Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott confronts spectators with a transcultural interweaving of West Indian with British cultural traditions. Taking as his point of departure Daniel Defoe's classic, Robinson Crusoe, Walcott goes on to exploit the intertextual potential of performance conventions by showing us what happens when the characteristically British 'panto' and music hall traditions are challenged by the ones typical of the Trinidadian Carnival. |
