Bryonn Bain’s Lyrics from Lockdown to Perform at Schomburg Center
Lyrics from Lockdown, written and performed by Bryonn Bain, will play February 11 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd), in honor of Black History Month. Mei Ann Teo will direct.
The story begins when Brooklyn’s own Nuyorican Grand Slam Poetry Champion, Bryonn Bain is wrongly imprisoned while studying law at Harvard. Weaving together the voices of his Caribbean immigrant family, and a California choir boy sentenced to Death Row at 17, this multimedia solo performance tackles America’s unresolved contradictions.
40 characters speak through one man on stage as this hip hop theater, spoken word poetry, calypso, classical music and blues-infused concert experience has you on the edge of your seat.
Lyrics from Lockdown premiered last fall to a sold-out crowd at The Public Theater in New York City as the grand finale of the NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival.
