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July 12, 2006

'Sugar Mommies', Play About Sex Tourism in Jamaica, for London Stage

rastafarian2_150.jpg'Sugar Mommies', a play centred around the issue of sex tourism in Jamaica, especially the practice of older Caucasian women coming to the island resorts to 'get their grooves back' with young nubile black men.

The plot focuses on white women from the UK and US who come to Jamaica to be with 'rastatutes' or 'rent-a-dreads', and comes with a high price for the 'milk bottles' or 'whiteys' as the white woman are supposedly called. The play debuts on August 5 at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre next month.

Playwright Tanika Gupta traveled to Jamaica, and conducted 240 interviews with females, primarily sex tourists, in order to do research for the project. The play will be directed by Indhu Rubasingham and stars Canadian-born actress Linda Bellingham. It will run through to September 2.

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Posted by yardFlex at July 12, 2006 03:40 PM

Comments

Posted by: Wade Cameron on July 15, 2006 11:43 AM

They should consider doing a real movie around the whole stigma. They tried years ago to do something like this with How Stella Got Her Groove back but the movie didn't come off real . In order for it to work you need real Jamaican actors. Something to thing about though.

Posted by: clenton on October 30, 2006 02:34 PM

good luck girls

Posted by: walt_babylove on January 11, 2007 09:49 AM

Well !
Who says this is not true ?

Why we act like we nuh live in Jamaica ?

Yuh and I nuh seh a whole heap a tourists dem come to Jamaica fi try de so called 'Rasta men could hold the "note" for a long time and dem love sex and also de black man dem 'ave big and stron thang ya see me a seh ? eveybody knows about this sex tourists these tourists travel to every poor nation for sex reasons mon ! !...dis is one movie mi whan fi see.

Good job fellas !

Posted by: Sisda on February 4, 2007 11:28 AM

I went to see the play in London last year. Very nicely put tpgether and very true to both sides of the arguement.
I laughed, I cried, I had much food for thought. I especially found the scene where the middle-aged English lady ties up the young Jamaican boy, (who was trying the "renta dread" ting on her), and screams abuse at him and leaves after throwing all her money at him, whilst he was tired to the pier. That was very deep for me. I just thought 'after the big fight to end slavery you went and put yourself in the position where you were selling yourself?' Shame.

Tanika Gupta did a grand job as did all the cast. I'd love for them to tour again as many ive told about it would like to see it.

Posted by: bad boy on May 9, 2007 01:12 PM

b**boc**h high grade 4 life

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