The Chronicle, Thursday, August 28, 1986-Page A7
\bove, Sydney Hibbert acts out humorous and dramatic scenes
Tom “The Lane” during his recent performance of “Anansi and
Vluntu” at the Salem College Fine Arts Center.
Sydney Hibbert gives life
to bis‘Anansi and Muntu’
rSydney Hibbert, a member of
ife School of Drama faculty of
North Carolina School of the
its, recently presented a three-
ly performance run of his
nansi and Muntu” at the
Jem College Fine Arts Center.
:HibbeEt- has also released a
)ok of the same title, which is a
Election of dramatic vignettes
id poems selected from a series
jf one-man shows begun in 1976.
The performance is a mixture
humor and pathos and offers a
ctitical view of the Caribbean
sbul.
I In the book’s foreword. Cliff
Aashley writes, “Sydney
Hibbert’s stories and poems ar
ticulate and help resolve a par
ticular dilemma. Jamaicans who
grew up in the ’40s and ’50s, dur
ing the struggle against col
onialism, found themselves pull
ed in opposite directions. The
colonial standard English educa
tion ... encouraged self
denigration. Simultaneously, the
nascent nationalism gave us an
intense faith in the future
possibilities of our people. Many
of us compounded this spiritual
agony by voluntary exile since we
were adventurous and our society
didn’t seem to have space for us
on terms we could accept.”
A Caribbean-American, Hib
bert received a classical education
at Excelsior College in Kingston,
Jamaica, which led to civil service
posts in Jamaica and
Washington.
After traveling to London,
Hibbert pursued his interest in
theater and its literature. He
graduated from the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Arts and
the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama.
Hibbert completed graduate
studies in speech communications
and theater arts at Illinois State
University.
In 1983 and again in 1986 he
received the highest acting
recognition on the West Coast,
the Los Angeles Drama Logue
Critics Award.
Hibbert has also chaired the
drama departments at Livingston
College and Rutgers University
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