Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet) by Carson Kreitzer
Dutchman by Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones)
Directed by Scott Zigler
Featuring graduate acting students in the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University
Playwright Carson Kreitzer explores the ambiguous lines between sanity and insanity, justice and crime in Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet), a play inspired by the lives of two women: Anna Pankiev, the older sister of Sigmund Freud’s patient, the Wolf Man; and Ellie Nesler, a woman who shot her son’s accused molester while he was testifying in court.
A conversation on the subway turns vicious as Dutchman’s two passengers, a white woman and a young black man, flirt with race and rage. First performed in 1968, Amiri Baraka’s Obie-winning drama maintains an incendiary power, hurtling through corridors of anger hidden deep below American decorum.
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Credits
Dutchman
Clay: Marvin Duverne
Lula: Lexa Gluck
Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet)
Anje: Lize Johnston
Ellie: Natalie Battistone