Diary of Lights by Adrienne Kennedy: with Lyrics by Sandy Chapin

Modern Drama ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Kennedy ◽  
Sandy Chapin
Keyword(s):  
Adrienne Kennedy

“An Evasion of Ontology”: Being Adrienne Kennedy

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Adrienne Kennedy

scholarly journals Performative Encounters: Memory Violence in Sleep Deprivation Chamber

2021 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Paula Barba Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Sleep Deprivation ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Adrienne Kennedy ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
Black Man

In their biographical play Sleep Deprivation Chamber (1996), Adrienne Kennedy and her son Adam P. Kennedy retrace family memories to describe the aftermath of police brutality in 1990s America. They narrate the brutal beating of a middle-class, young Black man named Teddy and the events taking place later at trial. The playwrights make use of “memory violence” (Olick 2018) to elicit the spectators’ emotional response and construct a performative encounter in which the figures of perpetrator, survivor and bystander are questioned and redefined. Through this violence of remembering, they manage to insert unrecorded moments of abuse in our collective imaginary, moving from staged nightmares, distant courtrooms and individual sleep deprivation chambers into a figurative shared space where Black lives do matter.

Understanding Adrienne Kennedy (review)

Modern Drama ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Erin Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Adrienne Kennedy

Book Review: Understanding Adrienne Kennedy

2005 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-639
Author(s):  
Joan Wylie Hall
Keyword(s):  
Adrienne Kennedy
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