Adrienne Kennedy In One Act

Adrienne Kennedy In One Act

Adrienne Kennedy

Kennedy on writing Funnyhouse of a Negro
Reviews
Kennedy home page

$15.00 paper
ISBN: 0-8166-1692-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1692-3

A collection of Kennedy's classic works including the Obie-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro. In One Act has come to be a standard introducion to Kennedy's work.

Contents

Funnyhouse of a Negro
The Owl Answers
A Lesson in Dead Language
A Rat's Mass
Sun
A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White

Greek Adaptions:

Electra
Orestes

From the Preface:

More than anything I remember the day surrounding the writing of each of these plays . . . the places . . . Accra Ghana and Rome for Funnyhouse of a Negro . . . the shuttered guest house surrounded by gardens of sweet smelling frangipani shrubs . . . in Rome the sunny roof of the apartment on Via Reno . . . the beginnings of The Owl Answers, also in Ghana . . . the lines of the play growing on trips to the North as I sought refuge from the heat at the desks of guest houses . . . our wonderful brand new apartment in New York in the Park West Village for A Rats's Mass and the enchanting Primrose Hill in London for Sun (sitting in the dining room overlooking Chalcot Crescent). Hadn't Sylvia Plath lived across the way in Chalcot Square? And again the Upper West Side of Manhattan for A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White and Electra and Orestes.

Without exception the days when I am writing are days of images fiercely pounding in my head and days of walking . . . in Ghana, across the campus of Legon . . . in Rome through the Forum, in New York along Columbus Avenue and in London, Primrose Hill (hadn't Karl Marx walked there?) walks and coffee . . . all which seem to put me under a spell of sorts . . . . I am at the typewriter almost every waking moment and suddenly there is a play. It would be impossible to say I wrote them. Somehow under this spell they become written.

Adrienne Kennedy's play A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White has been recently anthologized in The Norton Anthology of American Literature.

180 pages | 1988
Emergent Literature Series



Adrienne Kennedy In One Act Adrienne Kennedy Kennedy on writing Funnyhouse of a Negro Reviews Kennedy home page		$15.00 paper ISBN: 0-8166-1692-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1692-3
A collection of Kennedy's classic works including the Obie-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro. In One Act has come to be a standard introducion to Kennedy's work. Contents Funnyhouse of a Negro The Owl Answers A Lesson in Dead Language A Rat's Mass Sun A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White Greek Adaptions: Electra Orestes From the Preface: More than anything I remember the day surrounding the writing of each of these plays . . . the places . . . Accra Ghana and Rome for Funnyhouse of a Negro . . . the shuttered guest house surrounded by gardens of sweet smelling frangipani shrubs . . . in Rome the sunny roof of the apartment on Via Reno . . . the beginnings of The Owl Answers, also in Ghana . . . the lines of the play growing on trips to the North as I sought refuge from the heat at the desks of guest houses . . . our wonderful brand new apartment in New York in the Park West Village for A Rats's Mass and the enchanting Primrose Hill in London for Sun (sitting in the dining room overlooking Chalcot Crescent). Hadn't Sylvia Plath lived across the way in Chalcot Square? And again the Upper West Side of Manhattan for A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White and Electra and Orestes. Without exception the days when I am writing are days of images fiercely pounding in my head and days of walking . . . in Ghana, across the campus of Legon . . . in Rome through the Forum, in New York along Columbus Avenue and in London, Primrose Hill (hadn't Karl Marx walked there?) walks and coffee . . . all which seem to put me under a spell of sorts . . . . I am at the typewriter almost every waking moment and suddenly there is a play. It would be impossible to say I wrote them. Somehow under this spell they become written. Adrienne Kennedy's play A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White has been recently anthologized in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 180 pages \| 1988 Emergent Literature Series