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          Vaneisa: The Gentle Observer—remembering the ‘Cultural Sprangalang’

          The following column on Dennis ‘Sprangalang’ Hall, who passed away on Friday 2 October 2020, was first published in the Sunday Guardian on 30 January 1994:

          “Why you want to write about me?” he asks suspiciously on the telephone.

          “I doh like publicity.

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          6. I’s just ah ordinary man making mih living.”

          Dennis Hall, this ‘ordinary man’ lives almost subterraneously beneath his stage persona, ‘Sprangalang’. He demurs, then reluctantly agrees to meet at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop where he is to pick up some lighting equipment.

          At the appointed time, a sky-blue panel van pulls into the driveway and Sprangalang’s familiar figure emerges.

          “Why you want to write about me?” he asks, as he lights a cigarette and gazes out the window. “I’s just a normal citizen trying to put back something in de country for the air I does breathe.”

          He insists he is an utterly banal, unknown character, unworthy of attention.

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