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Jankunu Productionz delights San Pedro with 'Belize Rewind' theatrical play

After a countrywide tour, Jankunu Productionz arrived in San Pedro Town on Friday, April 26th with the final performance of its dynamic play 'Belize Rewind' captivating a large audience at the Paradise Theatre. The theatrical show features a full historical and cultural immersion that depicts Belize from settlement to its birth as a nation in 1981. The entertaining show included original songs, dances, creative poetry and a drama that submerged the audience back in history revealing what Belize is all about and what it has to offer.

The anticipated performance began shortly after 7PM, as founders of Jankunu Productionz Julie-Ann Ellis Bradley and Sandra McKay welcomed everyone to the show. Opening the spectacle was an interactive number featuring the public meeting held before the Battle of St. George's Caye in 1798. The audience played the part of the community back then, who participated in the public meeting whether to stay and fight the Spaniards who threatened to remove the English settlers and their slaves from what is now Belize or abandon the settlement. As in history, the activity showed that there was a 65 to 51 vote to defend the settlement. Next, there was a re-enactment of the Battle of St. George's Caye in which the settlers known as the Baymen, defeated the Spanish army and resulted in the territory becoming an English colony.

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