Dream on Monkey Mountain
Published: 1 Jan 1970
Description
"Dream on Monkey Mountain" is a play by the Nobel Prize-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott. It was first published in 1970 with a collection of short plays entitled "Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays". It was produced and broadcast on NBC in 1970. Produced off-Broadway by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1971, it won an Obie Award that year for "Best Foreign Play. "
In a review of the Negro Ensemble production in The New Yorker, the journalist Edith Oliver called the play "a masterpiece" and "a poem in dramatic form or a drama in poetry," noting that "poetry is rare in modern theater. "Like most of Walcott's works, the play is set on a Caribbean island.
(Wikipedia)
In a review of the Negro Ensemble production in The New Yorker, the journalist Edith Oliver called the play "a masterpiece" and "a poem in dramatic form or a drama in poetry," noting that "poetry is rare in modern theater. "Like most of Walcott's works, the play is set on a Caribbean island.
(Wikipedia)
