Eden (Steve Carter play)

Eden
Written bySteve Carter
Date premieredMarch 3, 1976
Place premieredSt. Mark's Playhouse
New York City
Original languageEnglish
SeriesThe Caribbean Trilogy:
Eden
Nevis Mountain Dew
Dame Lorraine
SubjectA recent Caribbean immigrant discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with an uneducated African-American man from the rural South.
GenreDrama
Setting1920s; San Juan Hill section of New York City

Eden is a 1976 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set in the 1920s, it is the first of Carter's Caribbean trilogy. Eden explores intra-racial conflicts between recent immigrants from the Caribbean and the African-American population. The West Coast premiere of this critically acclaimed play received five Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.