Announcing Richard III

 Ringplay Productions and Shakespeare in Paradise

 in association with
The Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts
and
UNESCO

Saturday January 17 8P Saturday January 24 8P (BOOKED OUT) Tickets $35 The Ringplay 2026 Season opens with two public performances of Shakespeare in Paradise’s Winter Outreach Production of Richard III. This production is made possible by the UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity and The Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts.

 

Box Office Opens for Shakespeare in Paradise 2025! September 22-October 12, 2025 Four Shows over Three Weeks!

 

Announcing Shakespeare in Paradise 2025! September 22-October 12, 2025 Rehearsals are under way in our newly renovated Black Box for our seventeenth festival!

Photos courtesy of Edward Knowles

Four Shows over Three Weeks!

Short Tales 2025

Short Tales features works by new and returning playwrights. Not all of our writers this year are Bahamian—we have offerings from the USA and from Trinidad as well. Selected by a panel of judges who read the plays blind, Short Tales 2025 will delve into issues as varied as mothers’ relationships with their children, what to do when you have unwanted visitors, how to deal with pesky insects, and the best ways to die. Don’t miss it! Runs September 22-October 4, PAB Black Box

The Stage of Life

 

"The Stage of Life" - Bahamas AI Art

 ©A. Derek Catalano

 

This poem captures the essence of life as a grand stage, where all play their parts, both noble and corrupt. It offers the possibility of change and redemption, with the ultimate hope of a better world.

 

 

 The Stage of Life

The curtain rises, lights burn bright,
A world emerges from the night.
A stage immense, both vast and grand,
Where all must play the roles at hand.

Some walk with honor, heads held high,
Their voices calm, their hearts belie
A kindness deep, a strength untold,
They shape the world in hands of gold.

They speak of love, they act with grace,
They mend the wounds, the fears erase.
Their scripts are writ with selfless care,
They light the dark, they breathe the air.