THERE WERE NO verbose tributes, no lengthy eulogy, but the simple poem read by a member of the Stage One Theatre Group yesterday adequately summed up the late Andrea Gollop-Greenidge’s passion and love for the arts.
“We laughed, we pranced around; we shared joy. There was a time when we were and we complained. We filled every seat and genius hands guided us to excellence, to merriment, to contentment to life, and we complained.
“Now there is a time and they are gone, going, gone, going and we complain.
“We will relish the memory, their countenance, their joy, their laughter, their pain,” were the words penned by Gollop-Greenidge’s former theatre colleague Ian Walcott-Warner and shared with the packed St David’s Anglican Church at the late cultural icon’s funeral service yesterday.
Prime Minister Mia Mottley was there paying her final respects to an outstanding Barbadian artiste, of whom she said at Gollop-Greenidge’s passing: “Her unique Bajan sense of humour lit up many a stage . . ..” (GC)
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