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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
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Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - One can only glance at Bahamian poet and playwright Gea Pierre to see that some great change has taken place, but in speaking to her you realize that this change extends much deeper than physical appearance. She is a survivor, who sickness has made stronger, brokenness has made better and challenges has changed. The year 2014 was a difficult year for Gea, what began as a rather uneventful year quickly became the toughest of her life. In April 2014 she was admitted to hospital with failing lungs and heart failure, this would be the first of many hospital stays locally and in Florida.
Much has happened in Gea’s life since that time, she has now returned to work after seven months of sick leave and most days she feels even stronger than she felt before her illness. This talented young woman accredits her near miraculous recovery to the fervent prayer of the righteous throughout this community, the love a commitment of her parents, family and close friends and the immense knowledge and quick thinking by the Medical Team at the Grand Bahama Health Services. Gea believes that God used her time of illness to quiet all the noise in her life and get her completely still where He could redirect her course. She insists that she was a rather timid person before who never realized that she was stagnant, too afraid too be all that God has called her to be. In her own words “When you have a near death experience, you become very conscious of time and all of a sudden life has a certain urgency now than it had before.”
It was this sense of urgency that led to Pierre’s latest production Perfect In Weakness. Gea began writing the play in 2006 when she was away at college, but could not finish, she could not find the motivation because she was not immersed in Bahamian culture and according to Gea the Bahamian people are her greatest inspiration. After her illness Pierre was moved to finish
Perfect In Weakness and did so in a week and a half. She is most proud of this production as she believes that it is her best writing thus far.
The production which will be held at Le Chateau on the Green (former bowling alley, East Sunrise Highway) from April 10-12, 2015 boasting a stellar cast of performers such as Patrice Johnson, Brion Roxbury, Will Stubbs, Tawari Rodgers, Remardo Russell, Diane Morgan, Petrona Russell, Aniska Johnson, Tameka Forbes, Luckner Timothy and Ontario Richardson. Gea says this play was a personal, emotional journey for her as every character has small bit of her personality. She says that the play is very human and the audience should be prepared to see themselves on stage in a wonderfully hilarious and dramatic way.
Gea, is re-focused and her goal for the rest of her life is simple but clear, she intends to plant every gift and ability God has given her into this soil so that it may bear fruit long after she is gone. She is painfully aware that had she died in 2014 this production would have died with her, which is unfair “too many times we put off for an uncertain tomorrow what should be done today”. Gea emotionally proclaims that if she could give some small peace of advice to anyone it would be to love, to learn and live, live!
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