| #845318 in Books | Univ Of Minnesota Press | 2001-08-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x5.88l,.95 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | ||1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| a great talent|By ian|Adrienne Kennedy's plays are wonderful. She writes about her personal experiences, which therefore tend to provide some historical insight about the people, places, and events she writes about, so there is a sense of reliving a time and place. That connection to the past is juxtaposed with a unique writing style that seems ahead of its time.From Library Journal|It is a pleasure to have so much of Kennedy's output in a single volume, the first major collection of her work. Kennedy won Obie awards for her plays Funnyhouse of a Negro, June and Jean in Concert (both included here), and Sleep Depriva
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, transcending the particulars of character and plot through ritualistic repetition and radical structural experimentation. Frequently produced, read, and taught, they conti...
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