Throughout her writing career, Adrienne Kennedy has used her own life experiences as symbolic of the divisiveness of American race relations. Like Kennedy, the characters in her plays are often light-skinned black women torn between their blackness and whiteness. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African American Playwrights
Adrienne Kennedy
Saturday Open Thread: African-American Playwrights
This week the work and style of African-American Playwrights were highlighted. The last playwright that I am highlighting is Adrienne Kennedy. Adrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright and was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's and 1970's. She is best known for her first major play Funnyhouse of a Negro. Many of Kennedy's plays explore … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African-American Playwrights