May 04 - May 20, 2012
Dowling Studio
The Guthrie Theater presents
a Carlyle Brown & Company production of
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been ...
by Carlyle Brown
directed by Noël Raymond
Set in Harlem in 1953, on the eve of appearing before the U.S. Senate
Committee on un-American Activities, Langston Hughes can’t sleep. So he
begins to write a poem. Exposed, guilt-ridden and fearful of the coming
day, he confesses how he intends to answer Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s
accusations on being a Communist.