Dutchman

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Dutchman is a play written by African-American playwright Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), born Everett LeRoi Jones [1]. It was the last play that he wrote using his birth name.

The play won an Obie Award.

The original text

Dutchman was first presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York City, on March 1964.

Translations and adaptations

The play was made into a film in 1967.

Adapted by Dukuza ka Macu and Sarah Pleydell as The Park and performed in Maseru, Lesotho in 1979.

Performance history in South Africa

1970s: A production for Space Theatre for club members only featured Yvonne Bryceland and Zakes Mokae.

pre-1981: Fats Dibeco starred in a South African production, venue unknown. This was possibly a Market Theatre Laboratory production, also starring Saira Essa and directed by Lindiwe Matshikiza. The event was controversial and attracted a lot of attention from the security police.

2008: The Lab production Lindiwe Matshikiza, Camilla Waldman as "Lula", Antonio Lyons, The Market's design intern, Noluthando Lubese,

Sources

Wikipedia [2].

SACD 1981/82.

The Sowetan, 19 August 1999.

The Star, 20 May 2008.

Material held by NELM: [Collection: MARKET THEATRE]: 2011. 341. 4. 1. 3.

Sarah Pleydell Official Webpage, https://www.sarahpleydell.com/performance

NELM catalogue.

Magalasi 1999.

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