Overview
A sensation in its New York premiere produced by the Actor's Studio, this searing drama by one of America's leading writers retains all its power to this day. Richard, a Black man who is a former junkie, returns to his parochial southern town and infuriates the denizens with his incendiary talk and actions. When he is killed by a poor, illiterate white man, the murder, the eulogy, the trial and acquittal are presented in an abstract dramatic form of time, fury and passion.