Til Ah Find A Place
From The West Indian Encyclopedia
If you can't laugh at the pain of life; how about snickering nervously at the puns of a little temptation? ‘Till ah find a Place’, the play asks the audiences to put aside their judgments and fear about extending a helping hand and look at how friendship, can be defined and redefined for selfish reasons.
The pacing is terrific and it is the sort of play where you sometimes laugh because you can't believe you just laughed or because you clearly can relate to a circumstance. It's not all dark, either. There's some well wrought physical comedy that causes unsolicited audience participation.
The key to the success of the humour here is that its main character Linden Lewis doesn’t look to winning audience's sympathy or laughing at himself; he simply tires to undo something he doesn’t want to accept that he’s done. After adamantly trying to convince his wife Roxanne that it’s never a good idea to have friends come to stay indefinitely because of crises, it’s never good to subject ’friendship’ to certain tests; Lewis falls victim to a man’s needs when his beloved Roxanne is away for an extended absence.
Disgust and detest turn to desire and passion for Donna, the friend who finds herself pregnant and determines she’s going to become the new mistress of the Lewis home. Spurred on by a ‘sweet-boy’ lover Eddie and a need for betterment Donna sets about securing her position to wear her friends’ shoes.