In this scrapbook of words, pictures, and memories, an award-winning playwright tells what it was like to be a young Black girl in the 1940s, aspiring to be a writer

People Who Led To My Plays

Politics & Social Sciences

Kennedy, Adrienne

Social Sciences

Alfred.A. Knopf

Drama
Characters: 3 male, 5 female 
Drop &amp; 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 whiter and whiter. She harangues against her father who gave her a jungle strain and then sold out to white harlotry, dreams of returning to Africa to save the continent, and hangs herself amid swirling conflicts and desires, a victim of a nightmare world.

Funnyhouse of a Negro

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 1 male (can be voiceover), 1 female
Adrienne Kennedy relates her bizarre and star-studded experience of moving to London and working on THE LENNON PLAY: IN HIS OWN WRITE. Her absolute astonishment at being thrust in among the rich and famous of the theater and film world is really refreshing and charming. This is a great story well told.

Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?

P. Kennedy, Adam

Madame Bovary

Romance

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

Adrienne Kennedy in One Act (Emergent Literatures)

Univ of Minnesota Pr

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

In One Act (Exxon Lecture Series)

Univ. of Minnesota Press

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

Deadly Triplets: A Theatre Mystery and Journal (Exxon Lecture Series)

Poetry

Deadly triplets : a theatre mystery and journal

University of Minnesota Press

Alexander Plays (Exxon Lecture Series)

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 people's lives, Kennedy's plays express poetic alienation, transcending the particulars of character and plot through ritualistic repetition and radical structural experimentation. Frequently produced, read, and taught, they continue to hold a significant place among the most exciting dramas of the past fifty years. 
This first comprehensive collection of her most important works traces the development of Kennedy's unique theatrical oeuvre from her Obie-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964) through significant later works such as A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White (1976), Ohio State Murders (1992), and June and Jean in Concert, for which she won an Obie in 1996. The entire contents of Kennedy's groundbreaking collections In One Act and The Alexander Plays are included, as is her earliest work "Because of the King of France" and the play An Evening with Dead Essex (1972). More recent prose works "Secret Paragraphs about My Brother," "A Letter to Flowers," and "Sisters Etta and Ella" are fascinating refractions of the themes and motifs of her dramatic works, even while they explore new material on teaching and writing. An introduction by Werner Sollors provides a valuable overview of Kennedy's career and the trajectory of her literary development. 
Adrienne Kennedy is a three-time Obie-award winning playwright whose works have been widely anthologized and performed around the world. Among her many honors are the Guggenheim fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters award.

The Adrienne Kennedy Reader

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