A young black writer embarks on a voyage through her life: her parents' marriage, her brother's accident, her romance, then marriage and its subsequent collapse. The voyage takes place within three movies that dominate her mind; Now Voyager, Viva Zapata, and A Place in the Sun. Her voice inhabits three movie stars as she becomes a bit player in her own life.
Set: Very sparse: a wedding bed, hospital bed, deck chairs, ship railing, row boat and oars."Ms. Kennedy has carefully forged an emotional bridge that one cannot avoid crossing, regardless of race, age or sex. She is unmistakably the real thing: a strong, utterly individual voice in the American theater."
"Possesses a trait often found in fiction and poetry but rarely conveyed by theater: the sense of the interior landscape of a single mind. For Ms. Kennedy's heroines, young black writers struggling to find points of connection in a suffocatingly white culture, that world is self-contained to the point of isolation, artfully woven into a confining net of cyclical rhythms and imagery. Ms. Kennedy's language has a fuguelike quality that only deepens in the speaking of it..."
| AUG 29, 2025 - AUG 29, 2025
BOTTLE TREE THEATRE INC
North Hollywood, CA United States |
BOTTLE TREE THEATRE INC | North Hollywood, CA United States |
| NOV 17, 2021 - NOV 19, 2021
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama
PITTSBURGH, PA United States |
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama | PITTSBURGH, PA United States |
| OCT 17, 2019 - OCT 19, 2019
Barnard College
New York, NY United States |
Barnard College | New York, NY United States |
| DEC 07, 2017 - DEC 10, 2017
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ United States |
Montclair State University | Montclair, NJ United States |
| SEP 28, 2012 - SEP 30, 2012
The Contemporary Theater Company
Wakefield, RI United States |
The Contemporary Theater Company | Wakefield, RI United States |
| MAR 25, 2006 - MAR 31, 2006
New York University
New York, NY United States |
New York University | New York, NY United States |
| OCT 05, 1995 - NOV 03, 1995
Signature Theatre Company
New York, NY United States |
Signature Theatre Company | New York, NY United States |
| NOV 05, 1976 - NOV 05, 1976
New York Shakespeare Festival
New YorK, NY United States |
New York Shakespeare Festival | New YorK, NY United States |
| No upcoming productions. |
| OCT 05, 1995 - NOV 03, 1995
Signature Theatre Company
New York, NY United States |
Signature Theatre Company | New York, NY United States |
| NOV 05, 1976 - NOV 05, 1976
New York Shakespeare Festival
New YorK, NY United States |
New York Shakespeare Festival | New YorK, NY United States |
