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Dutchman and the Slave | Leroi Jones

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Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem--and they bring an eloquent and exceptionally powerful voice to the American theatre. Dutchman opened in New York City on March 24, 1964, to perhaps the most excited acclaim ever accorded an off-Broadway production and shortly thereafter received the Village Voice's Obie Award. The Slave, which was produced off-Broadway the following fall, continues to be the subject of heated critical controversy.

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Dutchman and the Slave | Leroi Jones

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For my grad school class on Theatre of the African Diaspora, I read Dutchman. The author is Leroi Jones at the time of writing but he later changed his name to Amiri Baraka. It‘s a powerful short play with 2 characters- a black man and a white woman- who interact in a subway car. It leans toward absurdism. Overall I‘d recommend it for an artistic, allegorical look at race relations in the 1960s (still sadly relevant now).

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Andrea313 I LOVE this play! I had the chance to work on a fabulous production of it awhile back and it always stuck with me. ❤️ 4y

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