The audience boards the subway car.
The Dutchman performances were held here in 2010, 2011 and 2013.
I attended the Dutchman
play at the Trolley Museum on Saturday, June 19, 2010.
It was a story of flirting on the subway—gone badly awry—with some racial overtones...
and some surprises (although a lot more can also be read into it at different levels).
Some people had been warned about rough language,
but there really wasn't much, and nothing worse than you would probably hear on the street in any big city.
All in all, I thought that it was done quite well, with good acting.
Thanks are due to Harold Greenblatt and Erik Garcés for their efforts in preparing the car for the play. I know that involved a lot of work. And thanks to Steve Ladin for making the connections to bring in this group. I also know that several other people did additional work (such as building the new staircase—Richard Edling, Marty Lennox) to make this happen. Hats off to all. Having an article in The Daily Freeman about this recently also helped.
I also wanted to say that I was pleased that this whole production could being held in car 6398. As Steve Ladin has pointed out to us, I think this got the word out to the community in one more way that we are here. It's still the case that a lot of people in Kingston have somehow never heard of us, so now there are some additional people who have heard of us. I know that this didn't happen by itself... thanks to all who helped to make this happen. This helps the Museum.
—Jon McGrew
The audience boards the subway car.
The performance begins.
L-R: Leif Grund, Laura Love-Kroll (Lula), Bruce Grund (director), Lerone Simon (Clay)
On the day that the play opened, the Daily Freeman had an article covering the play, including video clips.