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Yvette Martin – Her life is a play that doesn’t have an end yet By Stephen Weir for Caribbean Camera If you pulled back the drapes at many Toronto events, you would find 52-year    old  Yvette Martin pulling the strings, firing up the musicians and cueing the talent.    This weekend, for the first time in many years, the Jamaican Canadian actress is going to be on this side of the curtain joking about running from death! Ms. Martin has so many titles.  Actress, Artistic Director, Writer, Stage Manager, Arts Educator, Forum Theatre Specialist and well, the list goes on from there. She has been actively working in the Arts & Entertainment Sector here in Toronto for the past 35 years. Although Yvette has worked with various cultural groups and mainstream entertainment projects, she always credits the Black & Caribbean Theatres that laid the foundation for her successes. This weekend she is taking to the boards  starring  in a two a...

When Death Come Run  (but not till Martin’s play is over) By Stephen Weir for the Caribbean Camera Rehearsals are well underway for a new play which the playwright describes as a mash up of old time Jamaica and British theatrical farce. When Death Come Run by Torontonian Yvette Martin, opens the evening   (8pm) of   Friday May 4 th at the downtown Al Green Theatre. “ The play owes a lot to Agatha Christie written from a Jamaican perspective,” Martin explains. “Despite the part-patois title of the play, When Death Come Run is aimed at a general English-speaking audience”, The two-act play is set in the rainy Parish of Portland, Jamaica in the early 1970’s. The play, a comedic mystery focuses on two brothers in their late 60’s, Joshua Jenkins, the local tailor (John Phillips) and his brother Jerimiah Jenkins, the local grave digger and part time medicine man (David Smith). Along with their extended dysfunctional family they all try to come to terms wit...