Tobago Heritage Festival - Belle Garden Village

Every year, Belle Garden's presentation is based on the Bele Dance Feast or Festival. This year's production is the last part of a trilogy (seems to be a common thing in play writing for Heritage productions these past few years) about the owner of Belle Garden Estate and his family.

In the story this year, the estate owner, Papa Bower dies and leaves specific instructions about how his legacy should be distributed. The story is set in the first half of the 20th century and the stage design, though simple, is designed to represent a lush plantation setting. The life of the deceased is remembered and celebrated not in the usual form of Bongo (Games and Dance and Feasting), but with a Bele Festival, as was Papa Bower's last wish.