Ti-Jean and His Brothers

Through his allegorical narrative of Ti-Jean’s tête-à-tête with a devil hunting for humanity, Caribbean playwright and scholar Derek Walcott challenges his audiences in this moving West Indian folk parable. Through this simultaneously fanciful and politically provocative play, Walcott engages with issues of imperialism, colonialism and oppression as the tricked becomes the trickster and the persecuted thwarts the persecutor.