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BROWN SUGAR TOO BITTER FOR ME

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Oct 30, 2024
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Credit: Mahadeo Shivraj

Mark Read

Piracy of the Carribean

If you access Brown Sugar Too Bitter For Me (2013) via Guyanese director Mahadeo Shivraj’s official YouTube account, the first image that appears is a message in white on a black background: “Piracy is not a victimless crime”. What follows is a two hour long amateur production, a quasi-musical with …

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