The Baptism & The Toilet

The Baptism and The Toilet are two of Leroi Jones’ earliest plays. The Baptism, a viciously comic assault on diverse hypocrisies -religious, social, sexual- which inform contemporary American life, and the Toilet, a tough, relentless study of tenderness crushed and destroyed by an adolescent code of violence, comprise a pair of the most powerful one-act plays to be produced in New York in years.

“… one of the angriest writers to storm the theatre and one of the most gifted”
– Howard Taubman, The New York Times

“Naked hate, like naked love, is very hard to project or sustain on stage, but Negro playwright Jones can do it with venomous intensity.”
– Time