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 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 KennedyOCOs 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 KennedyOCOs
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
writings 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 KennedyOCOs career and the
trajectory of her literary development. Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931)
is a three-time Obie-award winning playwright whose works have been
widely performed and anthologized. Among her many honors are the
American Academy of Arts and Letters award and the Guggenheim
fellowship. In 1995-6, the Signature Theatre Company dedicated its
entire season to presenting her work. She has been commissioned to
write works for the Public Theater, Jerome Robbins, the Royal Court
Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, and Juilliard, and she has been a
visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, Brown, the University of
California at Berkeley, and Harvard. She lives in New York City. "
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