{"product_id":"9781510410718","title":"Plays for Today: With CSEC Study Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTi-Jean and his Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e was Derek Walcott's first venture into musical plays and is still his most popular work. A lilting St Lucian folk-tale, it tells the story of a poor family who dwell on the edge of a magical forest haunted by the devil's spirits. The brilliance of Walcott's writing draws us into the realms of fantasy where the actual and the miraculous collide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis Scott's \u003ci\u003eAn Echo in the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e is set during a traditional Nine-Night Ceremony held to honour the spirit of the dead. Shattering sequential time in a series of dreamlike episodes the play takes us back to the time of plantations and slavery - and the savage murder of the white estate owner. Who killed Mr. Charles? The answers lie deep in the racial memory, they 'echo in the bone'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe giddy atmosphere of carnival is the setting for Errol Hill's \u003ci\u003eMan Better Man\u003c\/i\u003e, a rumbustious, colourful comedy musical about stickfighters. With dance and song the battling troubadours and the calypsonian weave a tale of braver, superstition and fraudulence. When first performed the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e described it as 'a blazing electrifying feast of rhythm and colour'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146454712560,"sku":"9781510410718","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781510410718_p0.jpg?v=1763723640","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781510410718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}