Not even the rain pounding on the roof of the Plantation Garden Theatre could have placed a damper on the Miss Mother and Daughter Talent Showcase 2011 on Monday night.
Although the heavy showers at times drowned out the audio on stage, they were not powerful enough to distract the ten focused mothers and daughters who participated in this year’s competition.
Eventually, Shana Grant and Kiana Brito (senior category) and Charmaine Ottley and Stephian Shepherd (junior category) were crowned Miss Mother and Daughter 2011.
The senior winners also walked away with the prizes for winning Miss Photogenic and the Best Talent and Best Gown titles. Meanwhile, the winners of the Junior Category dominated the Best Gown and Best Talent titles.
The judges, however,clearly placed emphasis on the talent on stage in keeping with the title of the show, and the contestants and their outstanding performances did not make that job easy for them.
In the senior division, Best Talent was won by the senior winners.
One talent that brought some members of the packed audience to their feet was a drama piece done by Roxanne and Shanelle Johnson.
Illustrating people’s reaction to domestic abuse, it featured a frustrated mother who was disturbed that her daughter, who was a successful doctor, ended up with an “intelligent and insecure” abusive boyfriend.
The daughter, who repeatedly went to her mother’s home seeking deliverance from her boyfriend who was bold enough to visit the mother’s residence in the middle of the night and was chased away, decided to end the abuse and the relationship.
Another touching highlight in the talent segment was Deborah Proverbs and Shakira Small’s portrayal of a mother who came home from work and found her daughter with a pregnancy test and immediately ordered her to leave after contemplating the shame she expected to face given what the “Joneses and the people from the church would think”.
As soon as her offspring obeyed her order, the mother started singing I Can’t Live A Day Without You and in the end, she went in search of the daughter whom she embraced and offered to take to a doctor.
In the senior category, Roxanne and Shanelle Johnson, Patricia and Jessica McCollin and Deborah Proverbs and Shakira Small, placed fourth, third and second, respectively.
Meanwhile, Calibia and Dominique Edghill, Bianca Bradshaw and Sarah Boyce and Diana and Ce-Jay Phillip placed fourth, third and second, respectively.
