Hannibal in the Alps

When Langston Hughes, one of America’s most beloved poets, was young, he traveled by working on a freighter. His work brought him to Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later to Italy and France. Michael Dinwiddie’s play Hannibal in the Alps is set in France and Italy in 1924, where we discover the young African American trying to sort out the ambiguities that plagued his heritage, his heart and his talent.