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Lynx Performance Theatre Continues its Dedication to the Premiering of Award Winning Progressive Theatre with the San Diego Introduction of Controversial Poet and Playwright AMIRI BARAKA (LeRoi Jones) “A Fierce and Blazing Talent” ____ New York Herald Tribune And the Premiere of his Astonishing and Provocative DUTCHMAN “A Play of Astonishing Power and Resonance, DUTCHMAN merges private themes, mythical allusion, surrealistic techniques, and social relevance” _____ New York Times Winner - New York City Obie Award for Best American Play directed by Al Germani Nov 10th - Dec 10th, 2006 Fridays 9:00 pm, Sats & Suns 8:00 pm Tickets: $20 & $15 $10 Preview: Thursday Nov 9th, 9:15 pm Performance is 50 min. no intermission. Recommended For Mature Audiences Only Lynx Performance Theatre Space 2653-R Ariane Drive SDCA (Map & directions at www.lynxperformance.com) An Adam and Eve ritualistic allegory of mythical proportions, DUTCHMAN incorporates Baraka’s Bohemian, aggressive, often shocking style, anti-racist sentiments, Jazz influenced musicality, multi-leveled symbolism and radical black consciousness-raising that would characterize much of his later work. DUTCHMAN marked his transition from Bohemian intellectual and part of the Beat literary movement (Kerouac, Ginsberg. etc.) to militant advocate and crusader for the struggle of Black America and personified his increasing expressive use of violent imagery. “Steeped in jazz and its great innovators (Coltrane, Monk, Miles, Bird) Baraka anchors himself in the music and makes his words sing with a wild, percussive insistence, and an abiding, utterly artful grace.”___ Robert Creeley The driving force behind the Black Arts Movement, Baraka was an intrinsic part of the defining of a new, self-determined black identity and the beginnings of an acknowledgment of the aesthetic value and beauty of Black Culture and Art which included the shifting of Jazz to recognition as a viable art form. Written and first presented in 1964, DUTCHMAN reflected and participated in the violence and severe racial conflict of the times. 1964 was a seriously eventful year which included the birth and solidifying of the Civil Rights Movement, the passing of the Civil Rights Act, the EEO Commission and Affirmative Action, lynchings, riots, widespread protest demonstrations and Martin Luther King championing his nonviolent philosophy featuring his “I Have A Dream” speech. He is highly controversial and his work, especially DUTCHMAN, is incendiary. www.lynxperformance.com
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