Amiri baraka biography wikipedia
Amiri baraka biography wikipedia
Amiri baraka!
Dutchman (play)
play by Amiri Baraka
| Dutchman | |
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| Written by | Amiri Baraka |
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| Date premiered | March |
| Place premiered | Cherry Lane Theatre (Greenwich Village, New York City) |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | , African Americans, African Americans Drama, American drama, American drama 20th century, American Postmodern Play |
| Setting | Underground, the subway |
Dutchman is a play written by playwright Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones.[1]Dutchman was first presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York City, in March co-produced by Rita Fredricks.
The play won an Obie Award; it shared this distinction with Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro.[2] Baraka's stage play was made into a film in , starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr.Dutchman was the last play produced by Baraka under his birth name, LeRoi Jones.
At the time, he was in