A Study Guide for Adrienne Kennedy's "Funny House of a Negro"
A Study Guide for Adrienne Kennedy's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1410346587

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A Study Guide for Adrienne Kennedy's "Funny House of a Negro," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Funnyhouse of a Negro
Funnyhouse of a Negro

Author: Adrienne Kennedy

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9780573621666

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"Drama / 3m, 5f / wing and drop"--Back cover.

A Study Guide for Adrienne Kennedy's "Sleep Deprivation Chamber"
A Study Guide for Adrienne Kennedy's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 1410358216

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A Study Guide for Adrienne Kennedy's "Sleep Deprivation Chamber," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Gale Researcher Guide for: Adrienne Kennedy: Fragmenting Theater
Gale Researcher Guide for: Adrienne Kennedy: Fragmenting Theater

Author: Kristen Wright

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published:

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 153584891X

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Adrienne Kennedy: Fragmenting Theater is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Contemporary American Drama
Contemporary American Drama

Author: Annette Saddik

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2007-09-13

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 074863066X

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This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.

Sleep Deprivation Chamber
Sleep Deprivation Chamber

Author: Adam P. Kennedy

Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781559361262

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In this autobiographical drama, a broken taillight leads to the brutal beating of a highly educated, middle-class black man by a policeman in suburban Virginia. The Kennedys interweave the trial of the victimized son (accused of assaulting the offending officer) with the mother's poignant letters in his defense and her remembrances of growing up in the 1940s, when her parents were striving "to make Cleveland a better place for Negroes". They have created a gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience in twentieth-century America.

Tally's Corner
Tally's Corner

Author: Elliot Liebow

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis--that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior--and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families. Elliot Liebow's new introduction to this long-awaited revised edition bring the book up to date. Visit our website for sample chapters!

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama
The Routledge Introduction to American Drama

Author: Paul Thifault

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-06-29

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1000598691

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This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on the American stage. Combining comprehensive coverage of the core plays from the post-Revolutionary era to the present, each chapter includes: historical and cultural context of each of the plays and their distinctive literary features clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked collaborative prompts for classroom or online discussion annotated bibliographies for further research With its accessible prose style and clear structure, this introduction spotlights specific plays while encouraging students to contemplate timely questions of American identity across its selected span of US theatrical history.

She Talks to Beethoven
She Talks to Beethoven

Author: Adrienne Kennedy

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 9780573703959

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Set in Ghana, Suzanne waits in her room listening to radio broadcasts about her husband who has mysteriously disappeared while she attempts to write about and communicate with composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Her world is infiltrated by snatches of Ghanaian string music, the revolutionary words of Frantz Fanon and strains of Beethoven's Fidelio. Suzanne, recovering from an unspecified illness hovers in displaced time and space fluctuating between Vienna, Austria, in 1803, and Accra, Ghana, in 1961.

He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays
He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays

Author: Adrienne Kennedy

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1559369280

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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 the Upper West Side and Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?