Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first time In the history plays that comprise The Haitian Trilogy--Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours and The Haytian Earth--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as...
This entire play feels like a study in slowly building tension. Like watching paint dry except the paint is made of nitroglycerin and the off-shade of ochre represents (respectively) the irrepressible dichotomy of white/black, master/servant, colonizer/savage, and carpetbagger/milkmaid. And the t...
They live by an unceasing self-deceit in an eternal republic, by the vernal sin in the blue distance, as summer widens its increasing pardon. Clouds unbutton their bodices, and butterflies sail in their yellow odysseys, and shadows everywhere wear the same size. But the horizon is closer as the a...
RICHARD PRYOR Every street corner is Christmas Eve in downtown Newark. The Magi walk in black overcoats hugging a fifth of methylated spirits, and hookers hook nothing from the dark cribs of doorways. A crazy king breaks a bottle in praise of Welfare, “I’ll kill the motherfucker,”...