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Short Eyes is a 1974 drama written by playwright Miguel Piñero. The play premiered off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater on 28 February 1974 and transferred after 54 performances to the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on 23 May 1974. Short Eyes prison slang for a pedophile was written for a prisoners’ writing workshop during Pinero’s incarceration for armed robbery.

author
Miguel Piñero
genre
Drama
IBDB ID
7969
IOBDB ID
2499
premiere date
1974-02-28
premiere place
The Public Theater
premiere year
1974-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
a dayroom in a detention centre
subject of play
young convicts in a prison fight insult and entertain one another in an attempt to preserve their sanity and create a semblance of community

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