T&T: The Sacred and the Profane

I'm a big fan of Peter Minshall's and Peter Samuel's. If you've never seen their King of Carnival costumes, man oh man, you've missed a treat. Here's half a pix of one of the best costumes, The Sacred and the Profane. On the one side, unutterable beauty; on the other side, unutterable ugliness. It's brilliant stuff! I wish that Peter Samuel would post a website with pictures from his King of Carnival costumes. For sheer brilliance of design; sheer presentation and artistic portrayal, nobody beats Minshall and Samuel. Both men have rightly recognized that mas is theatre. The play's the thing.

Read the article; download the graphic.

“For me, playing king has never been about winning titles or money,” disclosed Samuel Jnr, “ but being given that stage to perform on. I am an artiste; I am a performer, and to me it was never important as to where the judges were located, or whether they were there at all. All I was interested in was putting on a show for the audience.