University Players stage 'Not About Eve'

Not About Eve is the title of the provocative play, being staged by the University Players, the award-winning resident theatre company of the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts (PSCCA).

The remount began last Saturday, and is being shown through to Saturday.

The play won the International Theatre Institute's Actor Boy Award for Best New Play when it was first staged in Jamaica in 2006, and recently has been given prestigious public readings by the Black National Theatre in New York, and at the annual Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The play is written by University of the West Indies, Mona graduate, Karl Williams.

The revised play is drawing on the talents of veteran Jamaican director and actress Carol Lawes as 'Mama' the family matriarch, while University Players stalwart Nadean Rawlins plays her stressed-out businesswoman daughter 'Katherine'.

Lisa Williams, who was part of the cast of the highly successful Jamaican movie, Ghett'A Life, plays the role of a member of the third generation of the family.

Together, the three actresses paint a vivid picture of women's lives in contemporary middle-class Jamaica, peeling back the layers to reveal some of the dissatisfactions and disillusionment which reside below the thin surface of outward family respectability.

Shows begin at 8 p.m.