Old Story Time Flashcards
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Author of Old story Time
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Trevor Rhone
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Birthdate of Trevor Rhone
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1940
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Date of Trevor Rhone’s Death
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2009
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Trevor Rhone’s Theatre
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Barn Theatre (Kingston, Jamaica)
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Birthplace
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Bella’s Gate, St. Catherine
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Highschool
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St. Jago Highschool (1952-1957)
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College
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Rose Bruford College, Kent, UK (1960-1963)
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Plays by Trevor Rhone
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Gadget (1968) Cinderella Musical (1969) Smile Orange (1971) Comic Strip (1973) Old Story Time (1979)
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Films by Trevor Rhone
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The Harder They Come (1969) Smile ORange (1974)
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Setting of Old Story Time
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First Half - Unnamed Parish in Rural Kingston
Second Half - Mainly in Kingston Jamaica
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Characters
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Pa Ben Mama (Miss Aggie/Miss G.) Pearl Miss Margaret Miss Lois George McFarlane Len
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Pa Ben
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- Narrotor and storyteller
- Keeps the peace between Mama and Len
- Keeps the lines of communication open between Mama and Len, and Len and Lois
- He loves Len like a son and treats him like one
- Mama is his best friend
- He loves to drink white rum though he shouldn’t
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Mama (Miss Aggie/Miss G.)
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- Len’s mother
- She’s a market lady
- She’s very invested in her child’s education
- She’s very proud
- She believes that whites and near whites are superior to black people.
- She is very witty
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Pearl
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- Len’s childhood (best friend) friend - wasn’t supposed to hang with her.
- She is constantly pregnant
- By the middle of the play, she has ELEVEN children and is pregnant with another
- She dies in childbirth near the end of the play
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Miss Margaret
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- The white daughter of a minister. Rvrd. Greaves
- She attends Munro College with Len and George
- She shows Len’s love letter to her, from George and enables the plan to humiliate Len
- Mama wants Len to marry her because she represents advancement
- She marries George, they have a child together and that child attends Munroe College
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Miss Lois
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- Len’s dark-skinned wife
- Mama, initially doesn’t accept her based on her skin colour
- She, and her father, take care of Len after the humiliating experience with George and his friends.
- She sends money to George while he attends university
- She is blackmailed by George, twice, because she embezzled money from the bank
- She loves her husband and yearns for his attention
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George McFarlane
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- Len’s schoolmate at Monroe College
- He treated Len awfully and was the mastermind behind Len’s ultimate humiliation
- He was very dunce in school but was offered a place at the bank
- He eventually becomes the manager of the bank and embezzles money and is caught and fired.
- The owner of the fraudulent ABC homes, the company that scams Mama
- He was Margaret’s boyfriend in highschool and, eventually marries her
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Len
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- Mama’s son
- Extremely bright and did really well in school
- Attended Monroe College, got a scholarship to a university in England and travelled the world
- Obtained an excellent job in the banking sector, despite job issues after highschool
- Loves his mother and tries to be patient with her
- Loves his wife. He defies his mother by secretly dating her and marrying her
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Themes Present in Old Story Time
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- Racial and class discrimination
- Religion and obeah
- Education vs. Progress
- Dreams and aspirations
- Love
- Love and family relationships
- Power and authority
- Classism
- Stereotypes
