Metamorphosis presents Dutchman, a powerful one-act drama, which brought immediate and lasting attention to poet Amiri Baraka. The play is a feverish two-character confrontation that begins delightfully but builds hastily in suspense and symbolic resonance. Set on a New York subway train, Dutchman opens with a well-dressed, intellectual, young African American man named Clay, absorbed in reading a magazine. He is pursued by Lula—a flirtatious, beautiful white woman a bit older than he. As Lula suggestively slices and eats an apple, she and Clay tease each other with bantering talk that becomes more and more personal. She reveals little about herself, but Lula is clearly in control of the conversation and the situation as she perceptively and provokingly challenges Clay’s middle-class self-image. Lula is, in fact, a bit cruel.
Each performance of Dutchman will be followed by a guided dialogue about race and privilege in America.
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