Adrienne Kennedy
Author
Language
English
Description
In her first new work in a decade, Adrienne Kennedy journeys into Georgia and New York City in the 1940s to lay bare the devastating effects of segregation and its aftermath. The story of a doomed interracial love affair unfolds through fragmented pieces-letters; recollections from family members, songs from the time-to present a multifaceted view of our cultural history that resists simple interpretation. This volume also includes Etta and Ella on...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 372
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Politically engaged, formally daring, and making provocative use of material from contemporary history and popular culture, Kennedy's haunting stage works dramatize and project interior realities that are often marked by disappointment and trauma, madness and terror. Her understanding of the inner lives...
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