Praise for Adrienne Kennedy's Work

"Kennedy's plays are strong dreams that reveal us in our most vulnerable moments."
Robert Brustein, director of the American Repertory Theater

"There are times when we see plays that are so extraordinary-out of this world- we are literally shaken out of our everyday selves. There are greater things in heaven and hell, we realize, and this feeling of 'bigger things' does not easily leave us. The achievement of Adrienne Kennedy's plays is that they hurl us into another place, like a dark stream of consciousness in the blackest of worlds." New York Observer

"Adrienne Kennedy's plays are like towering rock formations, frightening and beautiful."
Alisa Solomon, Village Voice

"For four decades Kennedy has been writing the most intensely personal plays of any playwright in the USA, yet to call them autobiographical is misleading. They are about her and not about her, and this paradox gives her work a power, an intimacy, and a truthfulness that few others achieve. . . . Kennedy's works are dream plays, lyrical explorations of a troubled consciousness, female and black, often divided against itself and at odds with the world around it." Boston Phoenix

"Adrienne Kennedy is one of the black female doyennes of theater, where she has become a role model for a younger generation." New York Times

"[Kennedy writes] out-of-kilter, lyrical, and drop-dead brilliant work for the American theater." Lisa Jones, Village Voice

"An extraordinary artist." George C. Wolfe, New York Shakespeare Festival

"Adrienne Kennedy is one of this country's most important and impassioned writers."
Joseph Papp

"Like most great artists in whose work different cultures and styles converge, Adrienne Kennedy is unique." Ishmael Reed
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Praise for In One Act

"A unique theatrical voice . . . her use of masks, myth and characters played by more than one actor anticipated much in modern theater. Language for her is an incantatory force." American Academy of Arts and Letters

"You want to read these plays twice, yet at times you want to turn away from the truths exposed. . . . There are strong messages in these plays, messages we need to hear, whether for the first time or again." Ohioana Quarterly

"Adrienne Kennedy is one of America's most important playwrights . . . [yet] her innovative plays have not received the critical attention they deserve. [They] assimilate the grotesqueries of a John Webster with the painful lyricism of a Sylvia Plath." World Literature Today

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Praise for Deadly Triplets

"For her first novel, the talented playwright Adrienne Kennedy has had the intriguing idea of infusing her theatrical experiences in London with a Gothic sensibility and transforming them into a mystère à clef. . . . [She] paints precise portraits of such luminaries as Edward Albee, Joseph Losey and Fay Weldon, and tells a classic story of betrayal in the theater." New York Times Book Review

"Though markedly different from her plays, Adrienne Kennedy's mystery story Deadly Triplets gives us insights into the working of a creative mind, how place influences genius, and seemingly innocent events become theatre." Barbara Christian

"A fine mystery novella based on Kennedy's experiences in London . . . most interesting is the interplay with the autobiographical form." Library Journal

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