Original language English Genre comedy Playwright Robert Alan Aurthur | Date premiered 27 February 1968 Subject race relations First performance 27 February 1968 | |
Place premiered John Golden Theatre, New York Comedy plays The Gin Game, The Importance of Being, The Comedy About a B, Beyond Therapy, Present Laughter | ||
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.
The 1968 Broadway production was directed by Sidney Poitier and featured Louis Gossett Jr., Diane Ladd and Cicely Tyson. It ran for seven performances.
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