Bellas Gate Boy

by Trevor Rhone

This book includes an audio CD reading of "Bella's Gate Boy" by the author.Published here for the first time, "Bella's Gate Boy" is a hilarious, autobiographical account of the playwright's drama-filled path from being a 'country boy', the youngest of twenty-three children in the rural environment of Bella's Gate, to becoming the pre-eminent Jamaican dramatist of his generation. It tells a story of struggle with race prejudice and the quest for identity. In this warm, intimate and compelling one-man drama, Rhone takes the audience through his personal struggles and experiences from Jamaica, to England and North America that have inspired his award-winning socially charged writing.

56 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2008

About the author

Trevor Rhone was a Jamaican writer and playwright.

He began his theatre career as a teacher after a three year stint at Rose Bruford College, an English drama school. He was part of the renaissance of Jamaican theater in the early 1970's. Rhone participated in a group called Theatre '77, which established The Barn, a small theater in Kingston, Jamaica to stage local performances. The vision of the group that came together in 1965 was that in 12 years, by 1977, there would be professional theatre in Jamaica.

Among his works is the script to The Harder They Come, a 1972 crime film, which was instrumental in popularizing reggae in the US. He also wrote the script for the 2003 romance One Love.