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Petra Peters, an elderly lady who believes in the healing properties of sea water and the noni fruit, accidentally stumbles upon a recipe for restoring the bloom of youth to old people. Delighted by the improvements to her physical body and her senses, she shares her discovery with three friends who consequently enjoy the advantages of being young, healthy and beautiful again. Petra however is soon exposed to unsuspected dangers when knowledge of her miraculous concoction leaks out and she realises that her gift also comes with great responsibility. A rich tale of friendship, miracles, love and responsibility which explores the charms and dilemmas associated with the legendary Fountain of Youth.

McDowell's play is set in the fictional, Caribbean island of Wui. It focuses on the lives of ordinary people wanting happiness for themselves and their families, like everyone else. In pursuit of this, inequalities stand in the way, and the tensions beneath the surface of the lives of non-national workers from the Caribbean working in Wui, supposedly governed by applicable treaty arrangements that ought to protect them from discrimination, are exposed. Provocative and animated, Papa Roy's conversations with Richard, a non-national worker, reveals to Richard the realities behind appearances, and in the end, an unforeseen occurrence leads to tragedy.

The story of a middle-aged woman, seeking the true nature of reality, whose brief acquaintanceship with a domestic worker complicates her quest to put illusion and reality in perspective.

Experimental play set in the fictional island of Wui probing the contentious topic of legislating "morality" in the Caribbean region. It tells the story of two families' efforts to negotiate life where there are differences in "belief" systems in a society impacted by changing ideas concerning aspects of morality the majority aims to retain - as binding prescriptions not only for themselves but for the rest of society, too.

An image of the degeneration of the relationship between men and women. This book tackles, inter alia, a health and wellness issue affecting women that society for the most part has ignored.Eve and her friends, Marlene and Sue, become fed up of the disrespect meted out to women by men, especially at the workplace. Eve's and Marlene's bosses, in particular, act with monstrous disrespect towards them. Marlene decides to find alternative employment but during a job interview, her male interviewer attempts to rape her. The women are outraged and feel forced to teach the three men a lesson by kidnapping them and administering necessary "therapy", in order to rehabilitate them. Eve however is involved in a vehicular accident in the middle of their plotting and loses her memory, leaving Sue and Marlene to do the dirty work. Hoping to recover from her amnesia, Eve befriends a man, Jack, who claims they were childhood friends and who fills her in on past experiences. In the act of making new memories with her girlfriends as well as with Jack, Eve suffers even more dislocation when her memories return and the battle between the sexes becomes nothing but a bizarre reality in which no one wins.

A "coming of age" story that explores the lighter and darker side of human nature and man's need to worship.Émile, a young boy, grows up with some exposure to the ancient traditions employed in the worship of Dagon, God of the Philistines. At that tender age, he is unaware of their significance to his own life or within the context of broader societal expectations. As a young adult in the quest for knowledge and self-knowledge, he finds himself accidentally caught up in the battles of the Faith for survival in an intolerant world, encountering both the gentleness and destructiveness of humans. A strange, disconcerting story of isolation, endurance and human fate underscoring the absurdity of man's existence.

In 1425, Nika and Mico, discovered in the act of fornication, are stoned to death in accordance with tribal law. Some six centuries later, Martine and Nick, through a web of mystical revelations, come to believe they are Nika and Mico, reincarnated. Nika and Mico are believed to wander the afterlife in a tortuous state, seeking peace and rest for their souls. They are also believed to be responsible for a series of murders on the island in which couples guilty of infidelity have been stoned to death. Martine and Nick attempt to find a solution which would restore peace to the souls of their spiritual counterparts in an absurd world in which their search for knowledge and understanding becomes their worst enemy.Literary fiction with a taste of the supernatural, set in the Caribbean, referencing love between soul mates.

A confused young man, Kiiman, leaves home to seek the true meaning of life or reality. The existence or non-existence of God, the reason for human suffering, the nature of the path that would alleviate suffering are some of the issues he hopes to work out. After two weeks of wandering, meditating, practically starving himself, sleeping on the beach, meeting and speaking with strangers, he finds his answers or some of them and thereupon returns home. His outlook and thoughts however now appear radical and because his views are so different from what the predominant religion in the island prescribes, this causes his parents to believe he's possessed by a demon. Kiiman is consequently put in the care of a Pastor who takes on the task of cleansing him, which the Pastor attempts to do through violent beatings--one must not spare the rod and spoil the child, according to his thinking. Kiiman suffers dreadfully from the blows, the Pastor successfully freeing himself from responsibility. But, when the Pastor himself later becomes the victim of a freak accident, the reader is left to determine whether Kiiman's personal discovery has any basis in reality--that is, does the law of cause and effect, or karma, exist, and, does it and nothing else really govern the Universe and all consciousness?