Staged Reading of Lennox Brown's The Captive
Feb 20th, 2018
Staged Reading of Lennox Brown's The Captive
The Department of English is delighted to announce that George Elliott Clarke will be introducing and hosting a staged reading of Lennox Brown's The Captive. Winner of the 1965 National One-Act Playwriting Award, The Captive is the first play by an African-Canadian writer to appear in print. To date this groundbreaking play has never been staged. Brown's current whereabouts are unknown. Please join us on Friday, March 9th, at 8 pm in the Suncor Energy Hall when this forgotten work is restored to the Canadian stage.
Four young men from different parts of the African diaspora abduct a man whom they suspect of having murdered Civil Rights workers in 1960s Mississippi. Their plan to administer rough justice takes a disastrous turn.