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Roderick "Roddy" Walcott, OBE (23 January 19306 March 2000), was a St Lucian playwright, screenwriter, painter, theatre director, costume and set designer, lyricist and literary editor.〔("Roderick Walcott - A Brief Biography" ), ''The Voice Online'', 19 November 2011.〕 As a dramatist he "has been recognised as one of the most committed figures in the effort to develop a distinctive Caribbean theatre in the region".〔Michael Hughes, ''A Companion to West Indian Literature'', Collins, 1979, pp. 130-31.〕 He was the twin brother of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. ==Biography== Roderick Aldon Walcott was born in Castries, St Lucia, and was educated at St Mary's College there. In 1950, he (together with his brother Derek and friends) was instrumental in founding the St Lucia Arts Guild, to read and perform plays.〔 He wrote, produced and directed plays with the Arts Guild during the 1950s and 1960s, and is regarded as "one of the founders of modern Caribbean theatre",〔 building and fostering a local homegrown audience. In 1968 he moved to Canada where he studied Theatre Arts at York University, Toronto, Ontario, from 1969 to 1973. He returned temporarily to St Lucia in 1977 to become the first Director of Culture (1977–80). He was the author of several plays, many of them published by the Extra-Mural Department of the University of the West Indies. His play ''The Harrowing of Benjy'' is the most produced play in the English-speaking Caribbean.〔 He also wrote numerous musicals,〔Jacques Compton, ("The legacy of the Walcott Brothers" ), ''St Lucia Star'', 16 September 2010.〕 of which ''The Banjo Man'', a collaboration with the composer Charles Cadet, was successfully staged at Carifesta 1972 in Guyana and throughout the larger Caribbean islands. Walcott is also acknowledged as a pioneer of Carnival in St Lucia.〔 He died at his home in Toronto, Canada, in 2000 at the age of 70, after a long illness.〔("Roddy Walcott (70) passes away" ), ''St Lucia Online: Last Week's News'', 11 March 2000.〕 His death is a theme in his brother Derek's 2004 work ''The Prodigal''.〔Mary Jo Salter, ("'The Prodigal': The Wanderer" ), ''The New York Times'', 31 October 2004.〕〔Edward Baugh, ("Homecoming" ), ''Caribbean Beat''. From ''The Caribbean Review of Books'', August 2004.〕 In 2009, a collection of his works was donated to the University of the West Indies Open Campus in St Lucia.〔("Walcott Collection Finds a New Home" ), ''The Voice'', St Lucia, 16 April 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roderick Walcott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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