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LENNOX RAPHAEL (1940 - ) |
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Nationality: Born in Trinidad Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Journalist, poet, and playwright. Has resided off and on in New York City. Worked as a reporter in Jamaica before first coming to the United States as a U.N. correspondent. In 1969 worked with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative at P.S. 26 in Brooklyn, New York. Has also been a staff writer for the East Village Other, and an editor of Umbra, a poetry journal based in New York. His writings have been published in Negro Digest, American Dialog, New Black Poetry, and Natural Process. Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark
Plays by Lennox Raphael
Che! |
| 1st Produced: | Free State Theatre, New York | 1969 | |||
Company: | n/a | ||||
| 1st Published: | North Hollywood, Calif.: Contact Books, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28863 | ||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | ||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | |
Parts other: | 4 M, 2 F | ||||
Notes: | Opened Off-Bway, apparently in late 1968 or early 1969, but was closed by police after only one night. Music by Archie Shepp. (I was living in NYC in 1969 when CHE! opened in Greenwich Village. It was quite the scandal and, yes, it was raided and closed. However, it soon re-opened and ran for quite a while (over a year, I think)--paving the way for just about every other play I would see for several years to follow to have some nudity in it. For that single reason it enjoyed packed houses. The most remarkable event in the play was that it was the first and last time I'd ever seen a naked man acting-out a euphemism on a white porcelain toilet bowl! Other than being ""groundbreaking,"" it was a dreadful play. - Edward Crosby Wells) | ||||
Synopsis: | A symbolic drama of modern ideologies in which nudity, explicit sex, the character of Che Guevara, the president of the U.S., and a nympho-maniac nun are all stirred together in a kind of sociological/political metaphor | ||||
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Ziggerboo | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104169 | |||
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Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 56/3 | |||||
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