Theater in Saint-Domingue

Link

www.theatreinsaintdomingue.org

Blurb

The former French colony of Saint-Domingue (in present-day Haiti) was one of the most brutal – as well as one of the most lucrative – Caribbean slave colonies. Saint-Domingue was also home to the most extensive public theatre tradition in the eighteenth-century Caribbean. Despite the excellent work of a small number of researchers, theatre in Saint-Domingue remains relatively little-known today. Without overlooking the extraordinary violence and cruelty of contemporary Saint-Dominguan society, this website and database seek to make known the rich and varied culture of public theatre as documented in the local newspapers between 1764 (when local print production began) and 1791 (the beginning of the slave revolts that would lead to the Haitian Revolution), and to promote further research in this area.

They refer to themselves as...

a database

Language(s)

English, Français, Kreyòl ayisyen

Creator(s)

Julia Prest, et al.