“There is always a desire, but one can never ever go back through that door. But once they went through that door, they became all these other people’s definitions-slave, nigger, coon, African American-contrived, convoluted, negative-positive definitions of who they are. On one side of that door, those people were their own definition. “It was a very cerebral experience until I came to a door, what remained of a wharf on the site,” Wolfe said. The idea for the door, he explained, came about when he took a trip to Senegal and visited one of the main embarkation points where Africans were shipped out to America to become slaves. “You know, there wasn’t a door in ‘Jelly’s’ when I did it in L.A.,” Wolfe said, referring to the 1991 production at the Mark Taper Forum that he wrote and directed before its Broadway appearance.
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