Dame Lorraine | |
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Written by | steve carter |
Date premiered | March 27, 1981 |
Place premiered | Victory Gardens Theatre Chicago, Illinois |
Original language | English |
Series | The Caribbean Trilogy: Eden Nevis Mountain Dew Dame Lorraine |
Subject | An elderly Caribbean couple anxiously await the return of their son from prison |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | 1980s; Modestly furnished apartment in Harlem, New York |
Dame Lorraine is a 1981 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set in the 1980s, it is the third of Carter's Caribbean trilogy. Dame Lorraine explores a family who has lost all of their sons, except one. The last son is returning from a long sentence in prison.
Opened: March 27, 1981 at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago.