Dutchman 1964 Off-Broadway — Photo Coverage

BWW Review: DUTCHMAN Takes a Journey on a New York Subway Train with Two Lost Souls

by Shari Barrett - Jul 23, 2015

Folklore tells us The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. Amiri Baraka's thought-provoking play Dutchman, directed with a sure hand by Levy Lee Simon at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, takes this concept into 1964 when Lula, a young white woman waiting on a New York subway platform, spots Clay, a black businessman, through the passing train's window and decides to join him for no other reason than to entice him to succumb to her physical charms.