| Eden | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Steve Carter |
| Date premiered | March 3, 1976 |
| Place premiered | St. Mark's Playhouse New York City |
| Original language | English |
| Series | The Caribbean Trilogy: Eden Nevis Mountain Dew Dame Lorraine |
| Subject | A recent Caribbean immigrant discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with an uneducated African-American man from the rural South. |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | 1920s; San Juan Hill section of New York City |
Eden is a 1976 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set in the 1920s, it is the first of Carter's Caribbean trilogy. Eden explores intra-racial conflicts between recent immigrants from the Caribbean and the African-American population.[1] The West Coast premiere of this critically acclaimed play received five Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.[2]
Even during the best of not-so-recent times for black theater, plays tended to focus on black characters in a white world and didn't as a rule deal with prejudices among blacks themselves. But "Eden", a play by Steve Carter which will have its West Coast premiere at the Los Angeles Actors Theater.