A Branch of the Blue Nile
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Director:
	Warner, Earl.
Type:
	Production
Year:
	1983
Additional:
	Play by Derek Walcott. Produced by Cynthia Wilson, with Lauretta Hackett as assistant producer; stage managed by Dorsie Boyce; box office managed by Daphne Joseph-Hackett; Lighting Design by Francis Lewis, with Andre Fields and William Straughn on lights and Colbert Goddard on sound.
Venue:
	Produced by Stage One Theatre Productions and Nation Publishing Company at the Queen's Park Theatre in Barbados, 26 November-4 December (1983) (https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/z12n6vb5)
Annotation:
	With Clairmonte Taitt, Patrick Foster, Michael Gilkes, Norline Metvier Walcott, Elizabeth Clarke, Montieth Douglas, Monica Drayton, Christopher Moore, Winston Farrel, and Carson Cumberbatch in the cast. 
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Calbi, "Writing with Ghosts: Shakespearean Spectrality in Derek Walcott's A Branch of the Blue Nile"
	Corso, "'Bard Goes Bananas': Shakespeare e Walcott"
	Dasenbrock, "Imitation versus Contestation: Walcott's Postcolonial Shakespeare"
	Döring, "'Egypt, Tobago': Derek Walcott und die Shakespeare-Tropen der Karibik"
	Döring, "A Branch of the Blue Nile: Derek Walcott and the Tropic of Shakespeare"
	Erickson, "Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare"
	Eward-Mangione, "Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare"
	Houlahan, "Scenes of Learning/Stages of Instruction: Shakespeare Rehearsal Fictions"
	MacDonald, "Bodies, Race, and Performance in Derek Walcott's A Branch of the Blue Nile"
	MacDonald, Shakespearean Adaptation, Race, and Memory in the New World
	Matsuda, "'Her breathing . . . fills the lungs of the theatre': A Woman on the Caribbean Stage and in Derek Walcott's A Branch of the Blue Nile"
	Nowak, "'Classical and creole': Shakespeare's Legacy in the Caribbean Theatre"
	Pak, "Negotiating Identity in the Face of the Canon: Murray Carlin and Derek Walcott's Use of Metadrama in Shakespeare Adaptations"
	Ramin, "The Validity of Hybridity in Derek Walcott's A Branch of the Blue Nile"
	Tompkins, "Re-Citing Shakespeare in Post-Colonial Drama"
	Walcott, Three Plays
Persons:
	Walcott, Derek; Taitt, Clairmonte; Foster, Patrick; Gilkes, Michael; Metvier Walcott, Norline; Clarke, Elizabeth; Douglas, Montieth; Drayton, Monica; Moore, Christopher; Farrell, Winston; Cumberbatch, Carson; Wilson, Cynthia; Hackett, Lauretta; Boyce, Dorsie; Joseph-Hackett, Daphne; Lewis, Francis; Fields, Andre; Straughn, William; Goddard, Colbert
Tags:
	Antony and Cleopatra, Productions, Stage Productions
WSB Update:
	Spring 2026
WSB Record Number:
	cccp33