The Darker Face of the Earth

The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, is an Oedipal tragedy of interracial love set on a plantation in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The play has been read on Broadway, and has had full-stage productions at The Kennedy Center, The National Theatre in London, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among others.

Rita Dove is the author of numerous books of poetry, including the 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Thomas a…