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...SLAVE and THE TOILET. The problem-interracial conflict-is timeless, but the expressions of hate and violence in LeRoi Jones's two one-acters are shrilly attuned to the present...
...SLAVE and THE TOILET. The color scheme is black and white, and Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones whiplashes both races in his studies of interracial love and hate...
...SLAVE and THE TOILET cater to the white mentality that masochistically enjoys being reviled for injustice to Negroes. With painful intensity LeRoi Jones dramatizes both naked hate and the interracial love that dare not speak its name...
...TOILET and THE SLAVE. Naked hate, like naked love, is extremely difficult to project and sustain on a stage, but no one can do it with more venomous intensity than Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones. Jones is a dramatic terrorist, and as he sees it. the Negro is not starved for brotherhood but power...
...Toilet and The Slave, by LeRoi Jones, are one-act spasms of fury. Naked hate, like naked love, is very hard to project or sustain on a stage, but Negro Playwright Jones can do it with venomous intensity...