First Performance 06/04/2016
Closing 16/04/2016

A critical hit off Broadway in 1964, Amiri Baraka’s fierce drama Dutchman is revived at the Young Vic by Ola Ince.

Ince, winner of a 2016 Genesis Future Directors Award, leads this controversial show, which takes place on a scorching subway on a hot New York Day.

Lula and Clay meet, flirt, talk – and quickly find themselves violently attracted to one another. Who will make it off the train ride unscathed?

Exploring the horrifically traumatic black experience of the time, Dutchman is a cry of rage which is particularly crucial today, under the magnifying glass of modern race relations. 

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