Adrienne N Kennedy

Continues the series of American dramatist Kennedy's one-act plays. Includes She Talks to Beethoven, The Ohio State Murders, The Film Club (a monologue), and The Dramatic Circle. A foreword is the only scholarly apparatus. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

DramaCharacters: 3 male, 5 female Drop & wing Set A Black woman awakens in a phantasmagoric rooming house where she is visited by the Duchess of Hapsburg, Queen Victoria, Patrice Lumumba and Jesus Christ. Only she and Lumumba are not dressed in white; she has a white fixation and wants to become whi...

In this remarkable memoir, Adrienne Kennedy charts her life from growing up in Cleveland in the 1930s and 40s in a middle-class black family through marriage and motherhood and her eventual move to New York City in the 50s. Out of a sequence of deceptively spare statements emerges a complex portrait...

Introduction by Werner Sollors Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. Exploring the violence racism visits upon peopleOCOs lives, KennedyOCOs plays express poetic alienation, ...

MOM HOW DID YOU MEET THE BEATLES? A TRUE STORY OF LONDON IN THE 1960’S A CONVERSATION WITH ADRIENNE KENNEDY By ADAM P. KENNEDY LEGENDS Part of the Chronicling Greatness Series

A surrealistic intertwining of mystery and autobiography set in the theatre world of 1960s London by Obie-winning playwrite Adrienne Kennedy.

A revealing collection of words, memories and pictures-an autobiographical scrapbook--by an outstanding contemporary playwright.

Gathers five one-act plays about Black women in society and two adaptations of classical Greek dramas.