Dutchman framed Black artistic expression as sublimated violence

Evidence

A one-act two-hander modeled on Edward Albee’s Zoo Story, Dutchman shared a triple bill with Samuel Beckett’s Play and Arrabal’s The Two Executioners and, as a racial allegory that, among other things, suggests that jazz and poetry are sublimated violence, got all the attention: A young Black intellectual who imagines himself the “Black Baudelaire” is hypnotized, driven mad and destroyed by a provocative white witch he encounters in an empty subway car. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 615

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Albee reference in the broader canon of 1960s downtown theater; could link to the reading list book about the counterculture era.