Eden (Steve Carter play)

Eden
Written by	steve carter
Date premiered	March 3, 1976
Place premiered	St. Mark's Playhouse New York City
Original language	English
Series	The Caribbean Trilogy: Eden Nevis Mountain Dew Dame Lorraine
Subject	A recent Caribbean immigrant discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with an uneducated African-American man from the rural South.
Genre	Drama
Setting	1920s; San Juan Hill section of New York City

Eden is a 1976 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set in the 1920s, it is the first of Carter's Caribbean trilogy. Eden explores intra-racial conflicts between recent immigrants from the Caribbean and the African-American population. The West Coast premiere of this critically acclaimed play received five Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.

Set in the San Juan Hill section of New York City in 1927, Joseph Barton, a recent Caribbean immigrant and follower of Marcus Garvey discovers to his horror that his daughter is keeping company with an uneducated African American man from the rural South.

Eden is loosely based on the story of the playwright's parents. Horace Carter, Sr., a native of Virginia, and his wife, Carmen, who was born in New York of Caribbean descent, lived in New York City at the time of their son's birth.

In 1985, Carter wrote the screenplay A Time Called Eden, based on his play. It was set to go into production the following year, however, to date, the project remains unproduced.

In 2008, Barbara Montgomery from the original cast, staged a reading of Eden with the Negro Ensemble Company as part of The NEC Classic Playreading Series.

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