Bahamian playwright Telcine Turner Rolle's most famous work to date began as a class assignment, the passkey at the end of a three-month Playwriting Seminar during her Fellowship at Northwestern University, 1972-73."Woman Take Two", a three-act play being read in high schools around the nation, was born of "desperation," Rolle joked in a recent interview. At the end of a course spent reading and discussing plays, the five graduate students in Rolle's group had to write, discuss and re-write scenes that would eventually become plays. Rolle's play evolved from humble beginnings to first win a Playwriting Prize in the University of The West Indies 25th Anniversary Literary Competition in 1975, be published by Rolle herself in 1987 and published again by Macmillan Caribbean in 1995.
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