I will settle for silver in RH on Saturday night. Nehru, you coming over? 

Thanks for posting Vish. I had meant to do so since last weekend.

Visit http://www.demeraragoldtheshow.com/

You can buy ticket online at eventbrite.com

I hope to write a synopsis an something on this wonderful Guyanese girl.

I'll be attending.

Kari,

Is there any other QC posters online?

lots

I was informed of the quality of this performer

i  wonder how a drunken snake crawl 

The man told you already that he crawls "doggy style".

i would  not know i  am not a ppp batty boy i am happy u  know 

That's what you telling us. You are very obsessed with Kwame. A secret admirer perhaps? Come on out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will y'all please keep this thread about this wondrous Guyanese performer who has acted and received kudos in several plays around NYC?

Synopsis:

DEMERARA GOLD is the story of a 7-year old girl in Guyana who is left in the care of her grandmothers after her parents suddenly get visas to America.  

One grandmother is a rigid recluse.          

The other grandmother is a religious fanatic.  The girl's dreams are on hold until she finally gets a visa to join her parents in America.

Her new home in America proves to be all that was promised ... and more than she bargained for. 

You'll laugh 'til you cry!

Griffith’s solo-show

By John Marrast

If fine theatre is magic, then “Demerara Gold,” Ingrid Griffith’s solo-show is pure alchemy... the mythical practice of turning ordinary substance into gold. The show will be held at the Starlite Pavilion, Richmond Hill on Sunday, Dec. 21 at 3:00 p.m.

Guyana is a small English speaking country on the shoulder of South America, bordering on Venezuela and Brazil. Georgetown, its capital, sits at the confluence of two rivers that thunder from the Amazon down through the mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.

Guyanese men have long ventured into the canopied jungle to mine some of the purest gold in the world. Ingrid Griffith’s own grandfather dug precious metal out of the red dirt and forged raging rivers to carry his gold back home. But he gave his granddaughter another even more valuable gift. In “Demerara Gold,” a seven-year old girl is left behind in Guyana in the care of her grandmother when her parents get visas to the United States of America. The girl finally reunites with her parents in America. She finds the promised wonders of America, but also a family unlike the one she remembers. Aspirations and reality have collided. Assimilation has taken its toll and that’s when the girl in “Demerara Gold” reaches deep and reclaims her true birthright.

Ingrid Griffith, is the writer and performer of this one-woman show. She is a gifted actress who with subtle adjustments of voice and bearing transforms herself from an arthritic grandmother to a swashbuckling gold prospector in an instant. She is also a beautiful woman and graceful performer who excels at both farce and confrontation. The audience will roll with laughter as the young girl in Guyana challenges her grandmother’s authority, not with back talk but with a full-body African dance. Viewers will be captivated as the same child, now a teenager in America, stands like a goddess of war to make wrong right.

“Demerara Gold” reaches back to the rhythm and heartbeat of the Caribbean. In the first part of the show, the audience hears the music of the street masquerade in Guyana as “flute players, drummers and flouncers dance in the street.” In the second part of the show, the play moves to America and the audience witnesses the teenager acclimating to her new home and rousing sexuality, all while laying bare a side of the American dream that is hardly discussed.

Griffith explains that her inspiration for “Demerara Gold” was to abolish the one dimensional image of the immigrant family that faces obstacles together and lives happily ever after. “I wrote this play to celebrate my journey but also to share the other side of diaspora... the one that no one talks about. Attention must be paid to that price as well so that we stop the cycle that pulls our families and communities apart.”

The play grew out of a workshop taught by New York based solo-show coach, Matt Hoverman. Hoverman helped Griffith identify the narrative thread that keeps “Demerara Gold” charging forward to its heart pounding conclusion. But it is Griffith who takes “Demerara Gold” to its hilarious and dramatic heights.

©2014 Community News Group

Ingrid has been in theatrical productions in and around New York City. Some of her favorite roles were playing Lady Reveller in the 18th century play, The Basset Table, by Susanna Centlivre, Mrs. Muller in John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt", Hedda Gabler in Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" and various characters in Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues".

The classically trained actress has had a busy eighteen months. In May, 2013, she brought audiences out of their seats at the center stage at the Southampton Cultural Center in a supporting role in “Buckingham”, a period piece by Tina Andrews about slavery and African bloodlines in British royalty and in June 2013, she performed excerpts from “Demerara Gold” at Soho Playhouse as an opening act for Debra Ehrhardt’s popular “Jamaica Farewell”.

This April, she drew raves for her performance at the John Jay Black Box Theater as Mama Nadi, the lead character in “Ruined”, a play by Lynn Nottage about brothel women in war-torn Congo.

kari,

thank you for your followup

Today is the day - 5 PM at Starlite
Pavilion 101 Ave and 130 St in Richmond Hill, Queens, NY.

To my GNI friends and cuss-out buddies - please say hello.

Vish are you going?

Kari please confirm the time for the show.

Is it 3 or 5pm?

I think I might check it out and afterwards a few of us can hang out.

Vish call me.

Chief, both Vish and I will be there. Gaitrie too - she says fawaka.

It's a 5 PM start

he is informed

Alla sani boeng.

See you at 5pm.

Can you report on the Performance?

Nehru please come out and support local culture.

Chief, Everyone has their way, their type of entertainment, I never went to a Broadway Show and dont have any desire to be at one. I prefer travelling, "visiting" and Party.

u looking to put a pig in a mansion,a pig have to live in the mud  

So your House is a Sty???

That's all well and good Pavi, but a Guyanese cultural event versus a disinclination to go to a Play should inform your decision. C'mon down, Joing Chief, Vish and myself and a whole lotta Guyanese from all over NYC.

nehru was coming but there is a big sign on the door that say no drunk is allowed and he get mad 

Okay Bro I agree with you that everyone has their own style.

Yo today is Sunday Bro, give Nehru a lil rest.

Is he a Christian? Ah tawt he wuz a Pandit!

chat3

I saw dat sign on your Door and I was coming!!!!

running things

Mr Vishwa mahadeo you still support PPP thiefing because they is you own race?

Vish is now with the AFC

Very poignant show tonight. Ingrid Griffith's performance was a tour de force.

Small crowd in the Richmond Hill event - just word of mouth promotion - means that we have to bring this show back in Richmond Hill and promote it big time. It's a story that would be familiar to all of us and will tug at your emotions. Great pacing and delivery by Ingrid. The show raised some questions of social gravity of concern to any immigrant society.

Just a wonderful performance. It was beyond my expectations.

Nehru,

You need to see this show and everyone else in Richmond hill as well.

Great performance by this young lady.

Congrats to the young Lady and the show as a whole.  Thank you for the report.  I encourage all who appreciate such Art to attend.

Anyone saw the show on Sunday? If so, please provide a feed back. 

Whatderass, look at eye pass hay., you sayin you didnt get a good enuf report from kari?