The Real Wife, a comedy starring Andrea Wright as Delcita, returns to the Courtleigh Auditorium on November 28 with two shows.

It marks a comeback to the local stage for Stede Flash, popularly known as Jooky Jam.

The New York-based actor plays “a security who is full of trouble and problems”. It is Jooky Jam’s first appearance in Jamaica in 15 years.

“My last performance in Jamaica was in 2009, where Delcita and I were in a play called
Money Worries. This play is so special to me because I am in my comfort zone,” he said.

A graduate of Excelsior High School, Flash got involved in acting while a student there. His drama teacher was Ronald Goshop, best known as Mackie in Royal Palm Estate.

He made his acting début in 1989’s Maama Man, a play produced by Ralph Holness and written by Paul O Beale.

In June, Flash celebrated his 35th year in theatre by starring in The Real Wife at Mary Louis Academy in Queens, New York.

Wright, like Flash, is a veteran of roots theatre, the slapstick genre that emerged in Kingston during the late 1970s thanks to Holness’s creative marketing. She has played Delcita for over 30 years, first playing her in Delcita And Stamma in the early 1990s.

Wright wrote and directs The Real Wife, which is scheduled for dates in Miramar and Coral Springs in South Florida .

— Howard Campbell