Taboo is a play first performed in 1922, written by Mary Hoyt Wiborg. It is set on a plantation in Louisiana before the American Civil War and in Africa. It opened on April 4, 1922 in the , Harlem. It starred Margaret Wycherly, the only white member of the cast, Paul Robeson, other African American actors, and African students at Columbia University. An African dance was performed by , a Mozambican student at Columbia. This was one of Robeson's first stage opportunities and his performance was praised by critics.