Walcott, Derek - Dream On Monkey Mountain
DREAM ON MONKEY MOUNTAIN
PRODUCTION REVIEWS
Clive Barnes (review date 15 March 1971)
SOURCE: "Racial Allegory," in The New York Times, 15 March 1971, p. 52.
[Dream on Monkey Mountain received its New York debut on 14 March 1971 in a production by the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) at the St. Mark's Playhouse. In the following assessment of the premiere performance, Barnes calls the play a "richly flavored phantasmagoria" and stresses its poetic aspects.]
Derek Walcott's The Dream on Monkey Mountain, which the Negro Ensemble Company presented last night at the St. Marks Playhouse, is a beautiful bewildering play by a poet. Mr. Walcott, a black Trinidadian, rightly sees the English language as one of his ethnic inheritances, and he fell in love with it in a way that few people can.
He writes with a mind clarified with the clouds of literature. Even in this play we can see hints of Don Quixote,...
[The entire page is 7372 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Related Topics
