ADRIENNE KENNEDY   (1931 - )


Adrienne Kennedy
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Plays by Adrienne Kennedy

ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Beast's Story, A
1st Produced:
New York
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Cities in Bezique", French, New York, 1969
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
symbolic drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
4 characters
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Dead baby is born to black woman raped by black man and then again by her father.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Black Children's Day
1st Produced:
Providence, Rhode Island
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Boats
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Cities In Bezique
1st Produced:
New York
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1969
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Two 1 Act Plays
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The Owl's Answer & A Beast Story
Synopsis:
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Dramatic Circle, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Moon Marked and Touched By the Sun", Hern, London,
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Evening With Dead Essex, An
1st Produced:
America Place Theatre, New York
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Contained in: "An Adrienne Kennedy Reader" published by University of Minnesota Press
ISBN/ASIN
9780816636037
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Genre:
-
One act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mark Essex was called up and served with the navy. For two years he suffered violent racial abuse. He was discharged and later went on a killing spree in New Orleans.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Film Club, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1992
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The Alexander Plays
Synopsis:
a lyrical monologue delivered by Suzanne (during her husband's imprisonment in Ghana in 1961) recounting the activities of a film club that has been organized to view Bette Davis's movies. With action shifting between Legon and London, Kennedy explores the power of popular culture, the movies in particular, and Bette Davis most specifically.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Funnyhouse Of A Negro
1st Produced:
New York
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1969
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
symbolic drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The white fixations of an educated black girl lead to guilt and identity problems
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
June And Jean In Concert
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in The Adrienne Kennedy Reader intro by Werner Sollors, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Lancashire Lad, A
1st Produced:
Albany, New York
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Lennon Play, The: In His Own Write
1st Produced:
London
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Cape, London, 1968
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with John Lennon and Victor Spinetti, book by Lennon
Synopsis:
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Lesson In Dead Language, A
1st Produced:
New York
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Collision Course", Random House, New York, 1968
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Theatre of the absurd
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
10
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 37/8
Synopsis:
Non-sequiters prevail as a class of girls are taught by a white dog.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?
1st Produced:
Public Theater, NY
2008
Company:
LAB Series
1st Published:
ISBN/ASIN
978-0-573-66352-9
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Written by Adrienne and Adam P Kennedy
Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?
about Adrienne Kennedy's search for fame and fortune in 1960s London, where she encountered Laurence Olivier, James Baldwin, Ricki Huston, various British writers and, of course, The Beatles.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Motherhood
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White, A
1st Produced:
New York Shakespeare Festival (New YorK, NY, United States)
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Wordplays 3". Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1984
Playscripts, Inc - New York (2006) >>>
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
35-45 min
Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
5 males, 5 females
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A young black writer embarks on a voyage through her life: her parents' marriage, her brother's accident, her romance, then marriage and its subsequent collapse. The voyage takes place within three movies that dominate her mind; Now Voyager, Viva Zapata, and A Place in the Sun. Her voice inhabits three movie stars as she becomes a bit player in her own life.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Ohio State Murders
1st Produced:
Great Lakes Theater Festival
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
6 performers
Notes:
Synopsis:
Suzanne has returned to lecture at Ohio State University, her alma mater. Presented in a series of flashbacks that recall her student days in Columbus, the play is a shocking portrayal of a young African-American woman's struggles in the racially charged America of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The narrative structure melds past and present, allowing various repressions to be articulated on stage.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Orestes And Electra
1st Produced:
New York
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "In One Act", University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1988
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Owl Answers, The
1st Produced:
Westport, Connecticut
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Cities in Bezique", French, New York, 1969
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
symbolic drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music
Synopsis:
Race, identity, colour and lineage form the backdrop to this piece.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Rat's Mass, A
1st Produced:
Rome
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "New Black Playwrights", Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1968
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
Theatre of the absurd
One Act
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
see entry for Cecil Taylor
Synopsis:
Comment on the absurdities of the catholic religion in the confusion of today.
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
She Talks To Beethoven
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1994
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The Alexander Plays
Synopsis:
Suzanne's attempts to write about and speak with Beethoven are continuously punctuated by radio broadcasts about her husband who is missing under mysterious circumstances. Mediated throughout by snatches of Ghanaian string music juxtaposed against strains of Beethoven's Fidelio, the drama exists within a displacement of time and space, fluctuating between Vienna, Austria, in 1803 (Eurocentric space), and Legon, Ghana, in 1961 (colonized African-American space).
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Sleep Deprivation Chamber
1st Produced:
New York
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York,
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
3
Parts Other:
doubling, flexible cast
Notes:
Contains Motherhood 2000. Written by Adrienne and Adam P Kennedy
Synopsis:
Brutal beating of young black man by American police
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ADRIENNE KENNEDY
Sun
1st Produced:
London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Scripts 1", New York, London, 1971
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
Monologue
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A Poem For Malcolm X Inspired By His Murder showing a man being shattered and whirled in cosmic forms.
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