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Lennox Raphael

LENNOX RAPHAEL  (1940 - )

 Nationality:    African American
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Journalist, poet, and playwright. Has resided off and on in New York City. Worked as a reporter in Jamaica before first coming to the United States as a U.N. correspondent. In 1969 worked with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative at P.S. 26 in Brooklyn, New York. Has also been a staff writer for the East Village Other, and an editor of Umbra, a poetry journal based in New York. His writings have been published in Negro Digest, American Dialog, New Black Poetry, and Natural Process. Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark

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         Che!         Ziggerboo

Che!

Synopsis:
A symbolic Drama of modern ideologies in which nudity, explicit sex, the character of Che Guevara, the president of the U.S., and a nympho-maniac nun are all stirred together in a kind of sociological/political metaphor

Notes:
Opened Off-Bway, 22 Mar 1969, but was closed by police After only one night. Music by Archie Shepp. (I was living in NYC in 1969 when CHE! opened in Greenwich Village. It was quite the scandal And, yes, it was raided And closed. However, it soon re-opened And ran for quite A while (over A year, I think)--paving the way for just About every other play I would see for several years to follow to have some nudity in it. For that single reason it enjoyed packed houses. the most remarkable event in the play was that it was the first And last time I'd ever seen A naked man Acting-out A euphemism on A white porcelain toilet bowl! Other than being "groundbreaking," it was A dreadful play. - Edward Crosby Wells)

1st Produced:
Free State Theatre, 14 Cooper Street, New York, NY    22 Mar 1969

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1st Published:
North Hollywood, Calif.: Contact Books, 1969   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ziggerboo

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Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 56/3

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