Three Plays: The Last Carnival; Beef, No Chicken; A Branch of the Blue Nile
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; beige linen over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 312pp. Fine copy in original dustjacket, unclipped (priced $22.50), unfaded, Fine.
"The 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 The Last Carnival, with the colonial life-style of a French Creole family faced with the emergence of the Black Power movement, and ending, in A Branch of the Blue Nile, with the conflict among members of a small theatre company in contemporary Port-of-Spain" (from front flap).
"The 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 The Last Carnival, with the colonial life-style of a French Creole family faced with the emergence of the Black Power movement, and ending, in A Branch of the Blue Nile, with the conflict among members of a small theatre company in contemporary Port-of-Spain" (from front flap).