White Cargo (1925 tour)

Leon Gordon’s highly controversial, record-shattering mid-century psychological drama 'White Cargo' completed an extensive national touring company production that brought the textually raw tropical tragedy directly to commercial houses across North America in 1925 following its successful Broadway run. The claustrophobic narrative unfolds entirely inside a sweltering rubber plantation bungalow corridor in the West African jungle, tracking a buttoned-up young English clerk whose moral calculations fracture under extreme isolation, starring an elite company.