Buriel Clay’s play about two U.S. sailors on liberty in South East Asia during the Vietnam war.
We see the blossoming and the corrosion of a friendship between the black boatswain and a white intellectual . The black sailor is the voice of experience. His white companion is ravenous for experience. The events of their friendship are stereotypical—the boatswain breaks in his mate in a whorehouse and an opium den. But the playwright’s observations are original and his writing is rich with barracks humor. – From Mel Gussow’s NY Times Review of the 1975 Negro Ensemble Company Production
| Credit | Artist | Photo |
|---|---|---|
| Playwright | Buriel Clay |  |
| Director | Samm-Art Williams |  |
| Stage Manager | Alice Jankowiak |  |
| Set Designer | Ilellen Harrison |  |
| Lighting Designer | Ilellen Harrison | |
| Costume Designer | Karen Perry |  |
| Sound Designer | Gary Harris | |
| Props | Bernard Hall | |
| Actor | Samm-Art Williams | |
| Actor | Michael Jameson | |
| Actor | Nick Smith | |
| Actor | Dale Ricardo Shields |  |
| Actor | Danyl Smith | |
| Actor | Lilah Kan | |
| Actor | Khin-Kyaw Maung |  |
| Actor | Machiko Izawa | |
| Actor | Constance Boardman |  |
All 1982-83 Season productions: