In Amiri Baraka’s Obie-Award Winning last play as LeRoi Jones, a white woman seduces a naïve bourgeois black man on the subway with terrifying results.
The themes and issues of this play are just as relevant today as the day it premiered in 1964, if not more. Experimental, allegorical and angry, as the play unspools, she goads him, with liberal righteousness, into releasing the anger that, as a black man, he must surely be harboring.
The title Dutchman is an allusion to The Dutch East India Company, the most renowned slave ship company of the 17th century, whose flagship for the voyages between West Africa and America, tradition says, was named Flying Dutchman. The literary legend is The Flying Dutchman in which the central character is ever in pursuit of prey that can never be caught. This production will include the music of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM
