Adrienne Kennedy
An African-american girl dreams of establishing a heritage and imagines she is applying to bury her father in Westminster Cathedral. The chorus enters. Ann Boleyn, Shakespeare, and William the Conqueror scorn her: whoever heard of a black with such a heritage? Her father was white, she protests, and her mother was his family's cook. As a child she had to enter through the back door when she wanted to visit him. A companion piece to Kennedy's revolutionary Funnyhouse of a Negro.
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Award-winning playwright, lecturer and author Adrienne Kennedy was born in Pittsburgh in 1931 and attended Ohio State University. Her plays include Funnyhouse of a Negro (Obie Award, Petit Odeon directed by Jean Marie Serreau), June and Jean in Concert (Obie Award), Sun (Comm ...
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