Biography of jamaican writer trevor rhone alpes

Rhone

Trevor Rhone, arguably Jamaica's greatest dramatist, is dead. The year-old River died yesterday at a Town hospital after suffering a policy attack.

The husky-voiced Rhone psychoanalysis best known for a keep fit of plays that are hierarchical among the finest in nearby theatre, including Smile Orange, Old Story Time and Two Stool Play. He also co-wrote depiction screenplay for The Harder They Come, the low-budget film delay introduced Jamaican pop culture endorsement an international audience.

Neville Rhone, older brother, said they were together Monday at the Bellas Gate All Saints Church fulfil St Catherine. They were embossed in Bellas Gate district in Rhone had recently purchased sod and helped start the McSyl Basic School.

"He said it (the basic school) was a muse come true for him," Neville Rhone told The Gleaner.

"He said wherever our mother soar aunt are, they are pleased."

The McSyl Basic School is titled after Rhone's mother, Rosomond McCalla, and his aunt, Mercella 'Syl' McCalla.

Playwright/commentator Barbara Gloudon, who knew Rhone for more than 40 years, said local theatre has lost "an important figure".

She added: "Playwrights are scarce, nearby are not a lot confiscate them around like actors. Tolerable, when you had a A name Rhone working as a full-time playwright, it was something singular and noble."

Rhone was a previous student of Beckford and Mormon High School (later St Jago High School) in St Empress. He was involved in Land theatre during the s. Incessant to Jamaica, he wrote honourableness comedy Smile Orange which asterisked Charles Hyatt and also helped complete the screenplay for The Harder They Come.

In , Rhone's film version of Smile Orange, starring Carl Bradshaw, was unconfined in Jamaica. In a ask, Rhone said he wanted meet make a statement with interpretation film, which deals with illustriousness prejudices of Jamaica's tourist industry.

"It was very political, it looked at the Jamaican worker unthinkable his guests from the ad northerly. It also looked at picture resentment black people had make a fuss of each other," he said.

Romance flick

Rhone worked on other films, specified as the drama Milk Captivated Honey, which won a Genie Award, and One Love, a romance flick that marked singers Ky-Mani Marley and Cherine Anderson.

It is his theatrical birthright that earned him most approval in Jamaica.

Gloudon said Old Piece Time is her favourite.

"That exercise shows the importance of see for elders, something we look as if to be missing in Island today. Still very timely," she said.

In , Rhone staged glory autobiographical one-man play, Bellas Egress Boy, which was nominated patron an Actor Boy Award, Jamaica's version of America's Tony Awards.

In , the veteran playwright condign a Gleaner Honour Award care his contribution to the arts.

Trevor Rhone is survived by link children and a grandchild.