October 13, 1965 (page 4 of 32).

‘First Night by Milton Shulman’

‘Angry yelp from the black corner’

Negative review of the ‘The Amen Corner’ although Shulman praises actor Claudia McNeil for her performance as Sister Margaret. Opens his review by stating that: ‘a play by James Baldwin is like being gripped by both lapels by a strong, angry man who does not intend to let you go until he has told you in no uncertain terms exactly what’s wrong with the world’. Describes Baldwin’s writing as ‘gauche and snivelling’.