Harmony Farrell

“The Trinidad Carnival and the calypso are both theatres in and metaphors through which the drama of Trinidad’s social history is encoded and enacted, historically a celebratory mass/mas theatre of contested social space: the domain of the stick fighter, the Wild Indian, the Pierrot Grenade, the Midnight Robber, the chantwel and his descendant, the calypsonian, and the pan man of the emerging steelband movement into the 1960s.”
― Gordon Rohlehr

“Of course, it is most of all dirt that gives the roughness its edge; filth and vulgarity are natural, obscenity is joyous: with these the spectacle takes on its socially liberating role, for by nature the popular theatre is anti-authoritarian, anti- traditional, anti-pomp, anti-pretence. This is the theatre of noise, and the theatre of noise is the theatre of applause.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space

“While I know you (and I) hold brevity to be the soul of wit, description should not be the second-class citizen”
― Claudia Jones

“I have learnt from very early that people don’t know your name until you tell them what your name is.
I am like Madonna & Any Warhol. Madonna tell the world that her name is Madonna & she is who she is.”
― Geoffrey Holder