Guardian, Dec 22, 1967. p.5

‘Coming out of the American Dream’, WJ Weatherby

Review of Confrontation and Commitment: A Study of Contemporary American Drama 1959-66 by CWE Bigsby.

‘One reason why the early plays of James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry and Leroi Jones were so important was that they drew many more Negroes into the theatre on both sides of the footlights because their subject was negro life…an American Negro could go into the theatre without pretending that the world, as reflected on the stage, was wholly white…for an American Negro audience, a play like Blues for Mr Charlie was far more revolutionary – and perhaps for American writers too, as it was a pioneer in trying to express in the theatre the direct pop Blues feeling of American Negro singers’.