The Adrienne Kennedy reader / / Adrienne Kennedy ; introduction by Werner Sollors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812931903321
• Autore: Kennedy Adrienne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001
• ISBN: 0-8166-9170-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 812/.54
• Soggetti: African Americans; Racially mixed people
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- Werner Sollors --Because of the King of France 3 --ADRIENNE KENNEDY IN ONE ACT -- Funnyhouse of a Negro 11 -- On the Writing of Funnyhouse ofa Negro 27 -- The Owl Answers 29 -- A Lesson in Dead Language 43 -- A Rat's Mass 47 -- Sun 55 -- A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White 62 -- Electra (Euripides) 79 -- Orestes (Euripides) 99 --An Evening with Dead Essex 117 --THE ALEXANDER PLAYS -- She Talks to Beethoven 139 -- Ohio State Murders 151 -- The Film Club (A Monologue by Suzanne Alexander) 174 -- Dramatic Circle 182 --Letter to My Students on My Sixty-first Birthday by Suzanne Alexander 197 -- Motherhood 2000 228 -- Secret Paragraphs about My Brother 234 -- June and Jean in Concert (Concert of Their Lives) 239 -- A Letter to Flowers 262 -- Sisters Etta and Ella (excerpt from a narrative) 291 -- Grendel and Grendel's Mother 300 --Copyright and Original Publication Information 307.
• Sommario/riassunto: Introduction by Werner Sollors Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960's, 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