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New York, USA - The Off-Broadway premiere of Jamaican playwright and actor Debra Ehrhardt’s Jamaica, Farewell, based on her true-life story, opens on Sunday, March 3, at 7:00 pm at the Soho Playhouse in New York City.

Jamaica, Farewell is a heart-warming but heart-breaking story of Ehrhardt’s unique, unstoppable journey from Jamaica to America, the twists and turns of which include a daring and dangerous caper with the unwitting help of an infatuated American CIA agent.

A brilliant evening’s entertainment. Debra Ehrhardt held the audience spellbound for one-and-a-half hours without a hitch. Some serious talent’s involved here,” was the judgment rendered by the late Perry Henzell, director of The Harder They Come.

“Superb acting places the viewers at the centre of the plot and leaves them holding their bellies in pure laughter,” said Dr Basil K Bryant, former New York consul general of Jamaica.

The show, which won the New York City Fringe Festival award in 2007, has been performed to rave reviews and full houses in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and Toronto.

Previews of Jamaica, Farewell began on Friday, February 22 in what is being described as a triumphant return to New York and a major coup for Kingston-born Ehrhardt.

This is her third one-woman show. Previous productions include Mango Mango, which received two National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) awards; and Invisible Chairs, which was produced by David Strasbourg at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood and later optioned as a situation comedy by Fox.
Ehrhardt received a 2007 Proclamation from the City of New York for Jamaica, Farewell for her “outstanding contribution to the Jamaican community”.

A member of the Writers Guild of America, Ehrhardt is currently adapting Jamaica, Farewell for the big screen.

source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com