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The Mongoose Play is: a piece of folk theatre from Saint Kitts. The play is based around a battle against mongooses, who threatened the: island's chickens, an important food source, after having been imported to exterminate the——then-raging snake and "rat population." The Mongoose Play involves both dance and music performed by costumed masqueraders.

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