Year 2021

Name of candidate: Tevin Samuels

Centre number: 100087

Candidate number: 100087

Territory: Jamaica

Teacher: Miss D. Duhaney

 DETAILS OF PRODUCTION

On October 4th, 2019 my classmates and I went to a play that was kept at
the St.Hildas high school called the Ananda alert that was written and
directed by Fabian Barracks. A play that sought to embody the
amalgamation of neglect, trauma, ignorance, and tragedy that largely
characterizes the epidemic of child abductions in Jamaica. The play had a
lot of laughter, excitement and emotional scenes. It was filled with
wonderful cast members who played there characters very well and the
play had beautiful props. The casting members were Crystal Fletcher,
Aisha Davis, Shantol Jackson, André Bennett and Gracia Thompson. The
characters are Shaday, Diane, Pearl, Calvin Harris and Fendi.
 SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION
The play was about a young teenager named Shaday who had a lot of
friends and good grades but didn’t have the attention of her mother Diane
who played more attention to her work as a salon owner. Shaday’s
grandmother Pearl was a mother whose son left her with his ex-wife/baby
mother to live with for years. The family notices that the world is getting
darker around them; day by day children are missing. So on a day like any
other shade met an unknown person online and right away starts to fall in
love. A few days later a man named Calvin Harris appears out of nowhere
and starts to socialize with the family but secretly stalks the young
teenager. Shaday and the unknown person starts to become closer and
finally decided to go on a date and she later on finds out that the person
online was the man stalking her all along. Her family hasn’t heard from her
for hours and they start to worry. Days and months start passing by and still
no sight of her, her grandmother stills holds on to hope while her mother
gave up on it and through all of this the man is still socializing with family.
Some days later shade’s best friend Fendi visits the man’s home and
accidentally finds her friend but was later captured as well. Later on the
family grew suspicious of Fendi’s disappearance and visited her last
whereabouts and finds her and their missing granddaughter. The four
fought off the psychopathic man and won and the family was reunited and
that was the end of the play.
 ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTION

As the play’s title suggests, the message was spurred by the horrific
abduction and murder of five-year-old Ananda Dean more than a decade
ago, which resulted in the creation of the emergency Ananda Alert protocol
for child abductions in 2008. The play addressed the themes of abuse,
neglect, social-media danger, and criminality to an attentive audience at the
seated students of Ocho Rios and Saint Hilda's high school. Fabian
Barracks, never one to shy away from exploring uncomfortable, sometimes
disturbing, issues affecting contemporary Jamaican youth, takes an
unflinching, brutally honest look at these matters in Ananda Alert, his latest
theatrical offering that delivers his signature blend of a strong cast, a solid
script and no shortage of high-wire domestic drama and comedy. It’s great
entertainment and life lessons in a humorous package. 
 Impact of production

The impact of this production, is to show how A child suddenly gone

missing is every parent’s worst nightmare. But quite often, according to
experts, these disappearances are the result of parental negligence and a
dysfunctional home environment. The plot thickens, however, when your
headstrong kid has lost herself in the world of cyberspace and social media
and has started offering TMI. That’s simply a recipe for catastrophe.
Shaday must do so under the roof of her emotionally neglectful mother,
Diane (Aisha Davis), and a well-meaning but under-informed grandmother,
Pearl (Gracia Thompson). Both Shaday and her best friend, Fendi (Shantol
Jackson) illustrate the grave danger that can easily surround a young
Jamaican girl when the protagonist is trapped in the wiles of an unstable
criminal who had previously posed as a friendly figure. Barracks said: “I feel
very burdened by youth issues. Whenever I read the newspaper or watch
the news, I see some horrific things that evoke all sorts of emotions in me.
My way of helping is to write.”
 Director and cast members

Director Fabian Barracks

Crystal Fletcher Gracia Thompson

Aisha Davis Shantol Jackson

André Bennett