Les Blancs

The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father

He finds his teenage brother a near alcoholic and his older brother a priest and traitor to his people

Forswearing politics and wanting only to return to his wife and child in England, Tshembe is drawn into the conflict symbolized by a woman dancer, the powerful Spirit of Africa who pursues him

"Incredibly moving ...towering, magnificent" ~ N.Y. Times

"Possessed of the unrelenting power, breadth of vision and masterly technique that only a very few playwrights are capable of in any one generation" ~ Detroit News