{"product_id":"9781466880474","title":"Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; and A Branch of the Blue Nile","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThe three plays in this collection form a triptych--the central play, a farce, is flanked by two dramas. Together they span the last four decades of Trinidad's social and political history, beginning, in \u003ci\u003eThe Last Carnival,\u003c\/i\u003e with the colonial life-style of a French Creole family faced with the emergence of the Black Power movement, and ending, in \u003ci\u003eA Branch of the Blue Nile,\u003c\/i\u003e with the conflict among members of a small theatre company in contemporary Port-of-Spain. \u003ci\u003eBeef, No Chicken, \u003c\/i\u003ethe middle play, deals with the corruption of a small town in a hurry to catch up with the industrialization that a new highway will bring.  \u003ci\u003eThe Last Carnival\u003c\/i\u003e is an entirely new version of Walcot's earlier, unpublished play, \u003ci\u003eIn a Fine Castle. \u003c\/i\u003eIt had its American premiere with the Group Theatre Company in Seattle in 1983. \u003ci\u003eBeef, No Chicken\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre's Winterfest series in 1982. \u003ci\u003eA Branch of the Blue Nile\u003c\/i\u003e was given its Caribbean premiere by State One in Barbados in 1983. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161242386672,"sku":"9781466880474","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466880474_p0.jpg?v=1769892021","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466880474","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}