AAPACT Dutchman Starts Too Slowly; Finishes In Blazing Anger
The script of Dutchman, Amiri Bakara's classic 1964 play of racial and sexual politics, crackles with the explosive rage that Langston Hughes' predicted in "A Dream Deferred." The fact that this production doesn't find that passion or electricity until two-thirds of the way through the 40-minute play doesn't prevent the audience from appreciating Bakara's themes or enjoying the laudable aspirations of the ambitious p…