Thursday, August 16, 2012

Adrienne Kennedy

Adrienne Kennedy (1931-now)

Adrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright and was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is best known for her first major play Funnyhouse of a Negro. Many of Kennedy's plays explore issues of race, kinship, and violence in American society, and many of her works are "autobiographically inspired.



[With The Immortal Seventh Division]

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