Short Eyes (play)

Short Eyes
Written by	Miguel Piñero
Date premiered	February 28, 1974
Place premiered	Joseph Papp Public Theater New York City
Original language	English
Subject	Convicts in a prison
Genre	Drama
Setting	A dayroom in a detention centre

Short Eyes is a 1974 drama written by playwright Miguel Piñero. The play premiered at the Theater of the Riverside Church,^[1] was then produced off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater on February 28, 1974, and transferred after 54 performances to the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on May 23, 1974. Short Eyes, prison slang for a child molester, was written for a prisoners' writing workshop during Piñero's incarceration for armed robbery.