Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights
Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights is an American play about a young Jewish man who insists on becoming a slave to an African-American law student as a personal penance for the years of wrongs whites have done to blacks.
| Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Robert Alan Aurthur |
| Date premiered | 27 February 1968 |
| Place premiered | John Golden Theatre, New York |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | race relations |
| Genre | comedy |
The 1968 Broadway production was directed by Sidney Poitier and featured Louis Gossett Jr., Diane Ladd and Cicely Tyson. It ran for seven performances.[1]
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway.
References
- Playbill listing accessed 15 June 2013
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