He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box & Other Plays

He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box & Other Plays

Adrienne Kennedy • Theatre Communications Group

ISBN-10: 1559369655 · ISBN-13: 978‑1559369657 · 2020

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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays by Adrienne Kennedy Adrienne Kennedy's acclaimed play about an interracial love affair in the 1940s, in a volume with two other plays: Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side and Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In her first new work in a decade, Adrienne Kennedy journeys into Georgia and New York City in the 1940s to lay bare the devastating effects of segregation and its aftermath. The story of a doomed interracial love affair unfolds through fragmented pieces--letters, recollections from family members, songs from the time--to present a multifaceted view of our cultural history that resists simple interpretation. This volume also includes Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side and Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles? Her dramas are sites of living history, where personal stories of racism's unhealed wounds mingle with dark tales thieved from the Brothers Grimm and 1940s Hollywood' * New York Times * 'The effect is unnerving and dizzying, guaranteed - as Kennedy's plays are always guaranteed - to trouble the mind for weeks on end' * Village Voice * Review Quote "The effect is unnerving and dizzying, guaranteed -- as Kennedy's plays are always guaranteed -- to trouble the mind for weeks on end." Description for Sales People He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box had its world premiere Off-Broadway in February of 2018 at Theatre for a New Audience in New York. Kennedy is an American playwright best known for her play Funnyhouse of a Negro which premiered in 1964 and won an Obie Award. Kennedy is known for her use of surrealism in her plays and drawing on mythical, historical, and imaginary figures to depict and explore the African-American experience. Much of her work is based on her lived experiences. Kennedy's other plays include: A Rat's Mass, Sun: A Poem for Malcolm Inspired By His Death, A Beast Story, and a play cycle known as The Alexander Plays (She Talks to Beethoven, The Ohio State Murders, The Film Club, and The Dramatic Circle) Kennedy is the recipient of many awards for her plays, including: Obie Awards: for Distinguished Play for Funnyhouse of a Negro and Best American Play for both June and Jean in Concert and Sleep Deprivation Chamber. A Lifetime Achievement Award from the Obie Awards in 2008. A Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing in 1967. A Rockefeller Foundation Grant in 1967 and again in 1970. A fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1972. The Creative Artists Public Service Grant in 1974. The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards in 2003. The 2003 Pierre Lecomte du Nouy Award. In 1994, she won the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award and an American Academy of the Arts and Letters award in Literature. In 2006, Kennedy received the Pen/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. Kennedy was named the playwright in residence at Signature Theater Company in New York City from September 1995 - May 1996. Kennedy has taught at Yale University, Princeton University, Brown University, UC Berkeley, Harvard University, Stanford University, New York University and UC Davis. In 2003, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature by her undergraduate alma mater, Ohio State University. In 2018, Kennedy was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Details ISBN 1559369655 Author Adrienne Kennedy Language English ISBN-10 1559369655 ISBN-13 9781559369657 Format Paperback Audience General/Trade Pages 144 Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

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