The Emperor Jones
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 7, 2009
Closed Dec 6, 2009
Opened Oct 7, 2009
Closed Dec 6, 2009
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Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones is the story of Brutus Jones, an African-American man who sets himself up as monarch of a Caribbean island after fleeing the United States following a prison break. The 1920 expressionistic drama is a compelling psychological portrayal of power, fear, and madness as it traces the life of the emperor as he tries to escape the island and the sins of his past.
John Douglas Thompson stars in the title role. Ciaran O'Reilly directs.
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A glance at the script for Eugene O'Neill's ground-breaking 1920 tragedy, The Emperor Jones, now getting a remarkably cogent revival at the Irish Repertory Theater, can lead one to wonder how to tackle this problematic work in today's lingering atmosphere of political correctness.
The trick is handling the play's depiction of a murderous New York black man who's conned his way to the ruling position on an unspecified West Indies island, which seems irredeemably dated. Brutus Jones speaks in pidgin English and says things like "Feet, do yo' duty" and "Who dat?" and O'Neill even has a stage direction that Jones "shuffles" -- a buzzword for racial bias if ever there was one.
Well, director Ci[...]