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Deadly Triplets A Theatre Mystery and Journal Adrienne Kennedy |
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The highly experimental nature of Adrienne Kennedy's plays transformed the landscape of Black American theatre in the past two decades and yet, oddly, left her on the periphery of her field, often feeling like an uninvited guest. Infused with colliding images of torment and tranquillity, violence and peace, horror and beauty, her surrealistic dramas open a window into her own life. "The characters are myself," she has said, the condensed expression of a theatrical mind that integrates diverse autobiographical, political, and aesthetic images into a uniquely personal narrative. Although a decided departure from her plays, Deadly Triplets: A Theatre Mystery and Journal is the logical extension of Kennedy's work—equally experimental, equally compelling. The book, as the title suggests, consists of two separate, yet integrally liked, entities. The "Theatre Mystery" (fiction) and "Theatre Journal" (nonfiction) exist simultaneously, mirror images of each other. Both are enshrouded with the same sense of mystery, silence, and eternity, presenting thickening layers of images rather than progressive action to develop their story: an interior monologue that sees the character as author coming to terms with the life of the author as character. Adrienne Kennedy's play A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White was recently anthologized in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 135 pages | 1990 |
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$18.50 cloth