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Delcita ready for The Brink of Valentine

Published:Saturday | February 12, 2022 | 12:05 AMYasmine Peru/Senior Gleaner Writer
Andrea ‘Delcita’ Wright will star in a virtual presentation of ‘Having a Man is Like a Business’, this Valentine’s weekend.
Andrea ‘Delcita’ Wright will star in a virtual presentation of ‘Having a Man is Like a Business’, this Valentine’s weekend.

It’s Valentine’s weekend and, with love in the air, actress Andrea ‘Delcita’ Wright is ready to present her intriguing short play about man-and-woman business on Sunday at a virtual event titled The Brink of Valentine’s.

The quirky title of the play alone, Having a Man is Like a Business, is enough to stir the imagination.

Delcita, who shared that, for the past 10 years, she has been visiting Canada every year, is missing being there in person this year, but she has opted for the next best thing. The witty and enchanting theatre comedienne is being joined on the virtual stage by a team based in Canada comprising playwright, poet, promoter and actor Devon Haughton – who was the first producer to introduce her to the Toronto audience – as well as Miss Lou impersonator and actress, Letna Allen-Rowe; neo and reggae soul singer, Mel Dube, and Toronto-based Jamaican singer, Captain Love.

“This is [a] big Canadian-Jamaican link-up showcase which is sponsored by JN Money. We will be having poetry, singing, and lots of good entertainment. I will also be doing a short play, which will see me in a big showdown, like a court hearing. So, this man who deh ah foreign, seh him book him ticket fi come see mi. Mi nuh see him inna how long and there are all types of suspicions and lots of drama. And, memba seh a him did mek me leave Patchie,” Delcita said with her trademark laugh.

Patchie is Delcita’s common-law spouse, who she unveiled in the play, Honeymoon, which follows the love story of two enchanting, rural-life characters. Their relationship is colourful and, of course, drama-filled. The story is set in Runaway Bay, St Ann, where Patchie is a gardener and Delcita is a domestic helper.

Delcita got her name from Delcita Coldwater, a character created by the late Paul O. Beale in 1993. She was the first person to have played the usually loud, rotten-toothed lady. The Delcita character was re-launched in 2008 in Di Driver, where Wright played alongside Keith ‘Shebada’ Ramsay. Since then, she has done Money Worries, The Xtortionistz, The Plumber, Ova Mi Dead Body, The Politician, and she recently appeared alongside Oliver Samuels in Entanglement.

Showtime on Sunday for The Brink of Valentine’s showcase is 6 p.m., and tickets are available online.