Paradise of Dead Souls

McDowell's play is set in the fictional, Caribbean island of Wui. It focuses on the lives of ordinary people wanting happiness for themselves and their families, like everyone else. In pursuit of this, inequalities stand in the way, and the tensions beneath the surface of the lives of non-national workers from the Caribbean working in Wui, supposedly governed by applicable treaty arrangements that ought to protect them from discrimination, are exposed. Provocative and animated, Papa...
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McDowell's play is set in the fictional, Caribbean island of Wui. It focuses on the lives of ordinary people wanting happiness for themselves and their families, like everyone else. In pursuit of this, inequalities stand in the way, and the tensions beneath the surface of the lives of non-national workers from the Caribbean working in Wui, supposedly governed by applicable treaty arrangements that ought to protect them from discrimination, are exposed. Provocative and animated, Papa Roy's conversations with Richard, a non-national worker, reveals to Richard the realities behind appearances, and in the end, an unforeseen occurrence leads to tragedy.