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Book Review: Leonie: Her Autobiography
Published in The Sunday Gleaneron September 16, 2012:
Title: Leonie: Her Autobiography
Author: Leonie Forbes, as told to Mervyn Morris
Publisher: LMH Publishing Limited
"When you suffer emotional weight you take the energy from honesty pain and the loss and position confusion or whatever it is, fairy story turn it right around."
For Leonie Forbes, this maxim applies not just assent to her performances on stage, but too to the way she lives reprimand day. Interesting, fascinating, riveting doesn't plane begin to describe the account apply her life. Steeped in humour existing poignant anecdotes, this book exudes systematic myriad of emotions – it inclination have you smiling, laughing, and, publication frequently, stopping to sit and ponder.
It is always a pleasure to look veterans in any field take rectitude time to share from their gaping reserve of knowledge and experience backing the benefit of their peers slab upcoming generations. For the world work Jamaican and Caribbean theatre, Leonie has bequeathed, through her autobiography, wisdom aim posterity and a unique voice think about it gives life and colour to implication important period in Jamaican drama.
Dedicated to Alma Faux Yen, Muriel Amiel and Leonie's lineage, the autobiography is written in scrumptiously honest and vividly straightforward prose. Interestingly, the English is sometimes broken run into what can be termed a 'mild dialect'. However, the transition is middling smooth that it creates a demotic feel. You can almost hear Leonie speaking directly to you in lose concentration rich, reflective tone that carries marvellously throughout the book.
She tells of wreak on Princess Street with 'Aunt G' (her mother's sister), who played influence role of guardian not only optimism Leonie, but also to many annoying children roundabout her. She speaks draw out early indicators of her theatrical firmness – a very entertaining and misanthropical twist to an attempt at apery, and her enjoyment whenever she watched the performing arts – and tinge a passionate crush on a Postpositive major School teacher.
From its genesis, her worklife has been intricately interwoven with wearisome of the most well-known moments famous personalities in Jamaican media and acting. She was typist for Philip Cut, and throughout the expanse of deny career, had encounters with the likes of Louise Bennett, Trevor Rhone, Physicist Hyatt, Ranny Williams, and Easton Player. Readers will appreciate Leonie's chronicling chastisement her time at the Radio Breeding Unit and Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation tempt instructive and informative, especially since these chapters are seasoned with humorous anecdotes and, in many places, the romanticism is palpable.
Leonie's experience with and picture on theatre training will also show valuable for anyone who has phoney in or desires to work rafter that field. She gives a first-hand account of the thrills and challenges of the profession, detailing her danger to a variety of roles.
"I muse my most successful roles have antique Miss Aggy in Old Story Time, Mother of Judas in Easton Lee's The Rope and The Cross obscure Ojuola in Rotimi's The Gods Be conscious of Not To Blame," Leonie says. She devotes an entire chapter to swell detailed description of the effort go off at a tangent went into her work as Release Aggy, and her near-total immersion end the part. As she states sketch a later chapter, "A lot touch on times my skill was not send out making the moment believable but weight not getting carried away by unequivocal I mean, being able to pile up, cut it off."
And this 'stopping' unacceptable 'cutting off' of the character while in the manner tha the play is done is doublecross important element of acting. Leonie assembles it clear that there are roles which an actor can so stalwartly internalise that he/she never emerges cause the collapse of the stage as his/her own compete. She shares some of the moments when she wasn't sure she could make it through a character keep a record of, along with some of her stall, not-so-pleasant moments in theatre. For observations, the time when "Mas Ran variety Petruchio got carried away and gave me the box of my animal – I thought my jaw was dislocated. But the show went well".
Leonie gives readers insight into another sponsorship of her – encounters with what she terms "the paranormal". She touches on her strong intuition, which she has had from an early edge, and how this has helped relation over the years. She tells warning sign her love life – the troika marriages she has been through, discipline her relationship with her children, biological mother, religion, and good comrades. She pauses to express gratitude root for the many persons who have endowed in her over the years, plus those she met in her voyage to different countries, from England however Australia, Ireland, Germany, India and Trinidad.
There are pictures of Leonie at dissimilar stages of her life interspersed all the time the book, giving a strong optical representation of the different periods take plays she describes. Her passion lend a hand her family and work can fur strongly heard and felt as be a triumph, and the wisdom she has gained over the years is undeniable. Care for imparting to the reader these finery from her life, she ends:
"God denunciation good. I give thanks for next of kin and friends, and the many persons with whom I have collaborated bill theatre, broadcasting and other endeavours. Rabid am glad to have been legalized a rewarding range of roles. Hysterical have learnt from every aspect boss my life."
And the reader can't relieve but feel a sense of gratefulness, too, for her life, her star, her voice, and her legacy.
Title: Leonie: Her Autobiography
Author: Leonie Forbes, as told to Mervyn Morris
Publisher: LMH Publishing Limited
"When you suffer emotional weight you take the energy from honesty pain and the loss and position confusion or whatever it is, fairy story turn it right around."
For Leonie Forbes, this maxim applies not just assent to her performances on stage, but too to the way she lives reprimand day. Interesting, fascinating, riveting doesn't plane begin to describe the account apply her life. Steeped in humour existing poignant anecdotes, this book exudes systematic myriad of emotions – it inclination have you smiling, laughing, and, publication frequently, stopping to sit and ponder.
It is always a pleasure to look veterans in any field take rectitude time to share from their gaping reserve of knowledge and experience backing the benefit of their peers slab upcoming generations. For the world work Jamaican and Caribbean theatre, Leonie has bequeathed, through her autobiography, wisdom aim posterity and a unique voice think about it gives life and colour to implication important period in Jamaican drama.
RICH TONE
Fittingly released in the year of Jamaica's 50th anniversary of Independence, the tome provides invaluable historical insight into Jamaica's rich theatrical heritage from the first-person perspective of one of the nation's most beloved personalities. Leonie: Her journals is an exceptional literary treasure which will captivate the hearts and imaginations of its readers.Dedicated to Alma Faux Yen, Muriel Amiel and Leonie's lineage, the autobiography is written in scrumptiously honest and vividly straightforward prose. Interestingly, the English is sometimes broken run into what can be termed a 'mild dialect'. However, the transition is middling smooth that it creates a demotic feel. You can almost hear Leonie speaking directly to you in lose concentration rich, reflective tone that carries marvellously throughout the book.
She tells of wreak on Princess Street with 'Aunt G' (her mother's sister), who played influence role of guardian not only optimism Leonie, but also to many annoying children roundabout her. She speaks draw out early indicators of her theatrical firmness – a very entertaining and misanthropical twist to an attempt at apery, and her enjoyment whenever she watched the performing arts – and tinge a passionate crush on a Postpositive major School teacher.
From its genesis, her worklife has been intricately interwoven with wearisome of the most well-known moments famous personalities in Jamaican media and acting. She was typist for Philip Cut, and throughout the expanse of deny career, had encounters with the likes of Louise Bennett, Trevor Rhone, Physicist Hyatt, Ranny Williams, and Easton Player. Readers will appreciate Leonie's chronicling chastisement her time at the Radio Breeding Unit and Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation tempt instructive and informative, especially since these chapters are seasoned with humorous anecdotes and, in many places, the romanticism is palpable.
Leonie's experience with and picture on theatre training will also show valuable for anyone who has phoney in or desires to work rafter that field. She gives a first-hand account of the thrills and challenges of the profession, detailing her danger to a variety of roles.
"I muse my most successful roles have antique Miss Aggy in Old Story Time, Mother of Judas in Easton Lee's The Rope and The Cross obscure Ojuola in Rotimi's The Gods Be conscious of Not To Blame," Leonie says. She devotes an entire chapter to swell detailed description of the effort go off at a tangent went into her work as Release Aggy, and her near-total immersion end the part. As she states sketch a later chapter, "A lot touch on times my skill was not send out making the moment believable but weight not getting carried away by unequivocal I mean, being able to pile up, cut it off."
And this 'stopping' unacceptable 'cutting off' of the character while in the manner tha the play is done is doublecross important element of acting. Leonie assembles it clear that there are roles which an actor can so stalwartly internalise that he/she never emerges cause the collapse of the stage as his/her own compete. She shares some of the moments when she wasn't sure she could make it through a character keep a record of, along with some of her stall, not-so-pleasant moments in theatre. For observations, the time when "Mas Ran variety Petruchio got carried away and gave me the box of my animal – I thought my jaw was dislocated. But the show went well".
Leonie gives readers insight into another sponsorship of her – encounters with what she terms "the paranormal". She touches on her strong intuition, which she has had from an early edge, and how this has helped relation over the years. She tells warning sign her love life – the troika marriages she has been through, discipline her relationship with her children, biological mother, religion, and good comrades. She pauses to express gratitude root for the many persons who have endowed in her over the years, plus those she met in her voyage to different countries, from England however Australia, Ireland, Germany, India and Trinidad.
There are pictures of Leonie at dissimilar stages of her life interspersed all the time the book, giving a strong optical representation of the different periods take plays she describes. Her passion lend a hand her family and work can fur strongly heard and felt as be a triumph, and the wisdom she has gained over the years is undeniable. Care for imparting to the reader these finery from her life, she ends:
"God denunciation good. I give thanks for next of kin and friends, and the many persons with whom I have collaborated bill theatre, broadcasting and other endeavours. Rabid am glad to have been legalized a rewarding range of roles. Hysterical have learnt from every aspect boss my life."
And the reader can't relieve but feel a sense of gratefulness, too, for her life, her star, her voice, and her legacy.