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Thank you for a five-star performance Ms Jennifer Marvaree-Robinson, lead actor in Sweet Patootee Arts’ “CORNWALLIS CLOTH”; an original Black heritage comedy melodrama inspired by real experiences of WW2 in the Caribbean.
Click the image below to play a brief movie tribute to Ms Jennifer Marvaree-Robinson…
Sweet Patootee Arts’ participatory production of CORNWALLIS CLOTH, called for an established Black actress with presence, acting magic, stage craft and star dust; enough to carry high-quality collaborative storytelling, blending complete newcomers, rising stars, veterans, and gifted amateurs (including marvellous character performers who happen to be living with dementia).
Praise for Jennifer 2-times…!! Audience feedback is telling us that we’ve hit our mark by breaking conventions and starting new conversations: ‘An ordinary Black Caribbean civilian woman centre-stage in WW2’, ‘decades of archival silence gloriously shattered’, and ‘storytelling set in 1930s and 1940s Barbados that’s truly of Barbados folk culture – not Jamaica serving as default West Indian’.
Our CORNWALLIS CLOTH heritage drama film along with its supporting factual exhibition – inspired by oral testimonies of WW2 in the Caribbean – is currently showing at London’s iconic Old Royal Naval College until November 2026.
CORNWALLIS CLOTH is an IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund commission, in partnership with Sweet Patootee Arts
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