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ITHACA, NY: The Kitchen Theatre Company’s alternative series, KITCHEN COUNTER CULTURE will be featuring Dynamic Trinidadian performance artist and poet Roger Bonair-Agard as he shares stories, poems, and calypso over a bottle of rum in his newest work Masquerade: Poems of Calypso and Home. You may have seen him on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, don’t miss this rare local appearance! Friday, March 2nd at 8pm, Saturday, March 3rd at 8pm and Sunday, March 4th at 4pm. All performances will be followed by a talk back with the artist.

Through poetry and song, with humor and in all seriousness, Masquerade explores the ways in which distance, remembrance, and seventeen years away from home shape a man. It critiques and celebrates the Trinidadian ethos by examining the influence that its seminal music -- calypso -- exerts on a poet and the larger world. Bonair-Agard has appeared three times on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on HBO and stirred audiences at festivals and concerts from Germany to South Africa to Alaska.

Kitchen Theatre Company’s KITCHEN COUNTER CULTURE series brings Central New York the cutting-edge, outside-the-box, bold, uncensored work of writer/performers who are fearless in their convictions and daring in their presentations. The series celebrates new voices and diverse approaches to the act of performance with artists who are breaking rules and breaking new ground. This season the series highlights five artists of color. Coming up next in the series is Trinidadian performance poet Roger Bonair-Agard with Masquerade: Poems of Calypso and Home. The series concludes with Peruvian actress Teresa Ralli’s performance, in Spanish, of José Watanabe’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone.

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