A Pulitzer Finalist and Obie Winner, Rajiv Joseph Is Back With a Crisp, Tasty New Play, ‘Dakar 2000’
As a young man, the playwright served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal — which is exactly what the 25-year-old main character is doing when he reappears after the prologue.

At the beginning of Rajiv Joseph’s new play, “Dakar 2000,” a guy who calls himself Boubs tells us the story we’re about to see is “almost entirely true.” Boubs, an abbreviation for Boubacar — the character is half Indian — allows that names and some places have been changed, and that some of “the boring parts” have been “snipped away. Some other stuff has been added to make it … theoretically more interesting.”
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