Plays for Today

Ti-Jean and his Brothers 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.

Dennis Scott''s An Echo in...