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Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights

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Written by
  
Robert Alan Aurthur

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.

References

Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights Wikipedia