Distant Fires

New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1993). Unstated printing. Stapled wraps. [barely discernible rippling to upper part of book, in the front cover and the first few pages]. (B&W photo frontispiece) Drama centering around the competition between a white man and a black man for a promotion to a union bricklaying job, against a background of rioting in the slums of Cambridge, Massachusetts (based on an actual incident in 1967). The play received its world premiere in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1986, and although it was subsequently performed several times in other cities, its most notable production was off-Broadway in 1992 at the Circle in the Square, which production was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. A Los Angeles production the following year (with Samuel L. Jackson and Mykelti Williamson in leading roles) was also well-received. .