James Baldwin and Britain

Henry Poplin giver a brief negative mention of a production of Blues for Mr Charlie

Source: The Times

Feb. 10, 1968: 17

‘THE TIMES Saturday REVIEW’

US critic Henry Popkin gives a brief negative mention of a production of Blues for Mr Charlie: ‘Blues for Mr Charlie was only a partial, tentative, exploratory failure. Theatre goers were reminded that Chekhov was a better dramatist than JB.’