SOURCE: "How to Discover the Corruption in Honest Men?" in The New York Times, 21 March 1971, Section 2, p. 3.

In the following evaluation of the New York staging of Dream on Monkey Mountain, Kerr judges the play wordy and slow.

Derek Walcott's The Dream on Monkey Mountain, now being well performed by the Negro Ensemble Company, is a very long time catching up with the precision of its program notes. The notes are from Sartre: "In certain psychoses the hallucinated person, tired of always being insulted by his demon, one fine day starts hearing the voice of an angel who pays him compliments; but the jeers don't stop for all that; only from then on, they alternate with congratulations. This is a defense, but it is also the end of the story. The self is disassociated, and the patient heads for madness."

On stage, Roscoe Lee Browne, his voice rumbling...