Realistic
Smoked Glass Ceiling
A little Black girl from the US South lives through the civil rights era, becomes a broadcast executive in Canada and tells all.
The Dutchman
Dutchman is an emotionally charged and highly symbolic version of the Adam and Eve story, wherein a naive bourgeois black man is murdered by an insane and calculating white seductress, who is coldly preparing for her next victim as the curtain comes down. The emotionally taut, intellectual verbal fencing between Clay (the black Adam) and Lula (a white Eve) spirals irrevocably to the symbolic act of violence that will apparently repeat itself over and over again. Jones/Baraka's play is one of mythical proportions, a ritual drama that has a sociological purpose: to galvanize his audience into revolutionary action.
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contains monologue for young African American man
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Production and Publication
First produced
1964, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City
Publication year
1971
Published by
Harper Perennial
ISBN
9780688210847
Published in tandem with 'The Slave' through Concord Theatricals.
Published in tandem with 'The Slave' through Concord Theatricals.
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