Dutchman is a play written by African-American playwright Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. Dutchman was first presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York City, in March 1964 co-produced by Rita Fredricks.
The play won an Obie Award; it shared this distinction with Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro. Baraka's stage play was made into a film in 1967, 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 the process of divorcing his Jewish wife, Hettie Jones, and embracing Black nationalism. Dutchman may be described as a political allegory depicting black-and-white relations during the time Baraka wrote it.
The play was revived for the first time off-Broadway in 2007 at the Cherry Lane Theatre starring Dulé Hill and Jennifer Mudge, and in 2013 was restaged by Rashid Johnson at the Russian and Turkish Baths in the East Village.
Summary:
A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a stranger whom she has picked up in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual.
The man, who, at first seeing no reason to resist the girl's advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her, drops his "white" disguise, and launches a wild and bitter counterattack on her and on the entire white race.
The Play:
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The Movie:
Director: Anthony Harvey
Stars: Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr., Frank Lieberman
Writer: Amiri Baraka
I Don't believe in any sort of nationalism, ı'm a libertarian globalist but ı do believe in civil rights, justice, and all sorts of equality from the bottom of my heart to the core.
Another Subject:
No elite will attempt to establish any sort of secret society and secret order.
No security measures will be enough to keep safe those who think that they are superior to the people
No minority will be leading the majority by hiding behind the dark curtains of money and power
No secret teachings will be enough to prevent the inevitable revolution
which will come sooner or later.
St. Alien.
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