Beryl mcburnie autobiography books
Beryl McBurnie's life's work was to give West Indian people back to themselves..
Determined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early s to study dance and drama.
Beryl McBurnie
I N T R O D U C T I O N
Tucked down a quiet side street in Woodbrook, in western port of Spain, Trinidad, stands the only memorial to the woman who single-handedly rescued and revived West Indian folk dance from ignominy and oblivion.
a small, angular white building, it opens directly onto the pavement of Roberts Street, a narrow cross-street usually crammed with parked cars. number 95 occupies a lot intended for a small family home, which is exactly what it housed until Beryl McBurnie made other plans for it almost a century ago: one day, she decided, this would be the site of the Little Carib Theatre.
In the opening-night programme of the theatre in 1948, future prime minister Dr Eric Williams wrote: “it is people like Beryl McBurnie who will improve conditions in the West indies and upon whom more than anything else the future of the West indies will depend.” Today, a lifetime later, all that many people know of her is that she founded the Little Carib Theatr
