Dundas Centre In Disrepair

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts needs your help tonight. Administrators are appealing to the public for support that will help reopen doors to the theatre that has long brought us some of the greatest Bahamian storytellers.

The Bahamian theatre community has had a rough few years. First, the Regency Theatre in Grand Bahama was almost destroyed by Hurricane Dorian- now the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts is saying they suffered serious repercussions from being shuttered in the pandemic.

The Dundas board is urgently appealing to the public and the government for help raising $150,000 to replace the seized air conditioning units in the 82-year-old building.

The Winston V. Saunders theatre has been closed since March 2020. Chairperson of the Dundas board, Nicolette Bethel, says the forced closure during the pandemic effectively cost the theatre an estimated $200,000 in lost revenue. And, without revenue, the Dundas will not survive.

Despite their’s hardships, the Dundas board is still doing everything they can to keep the arts alive- by celebrating 50 years of Independence and 50 years of producing Bahamian theatre through their series called “A Year of Bahamian Theatre”.

For more information on the Dundas or Shakespeare In Paradise, how to donate, volunteer, or audition, you can visit their website, dundascentre.org , or ‘The Shakespeare In Paradise’ Facebook page.