He Brought Her Heart Back In A Box

by Adrienne Kennedy

Published by: Playwrights Canada Press

Imprint: Theatre Communications Group

Sales Date: 2020-10-01

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CA$22.95

Published: October 2020

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Imprint: Theatre Communications Group

Page Count: 144 Pages

Dimensions: 5.45 x 8.50

144 Pages, 5.45 x 8.50 x 0.35 in

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ISBN: 9781559369657

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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.

Adrienne Kennedy has been an important figure in the American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights. She is a three-time Obie-award winning playwright, including Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964 and June and Jean in Concert in 1996. Among Kennedy's many honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters award and the Guggenheim fellowship. She has been commissioned to write works for the Public Theater, Jerome Robbins, the Royal Court Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and Juilliard. In 1995-1996, Signature Theatre Company dedicated its entire season to presenting her works. Kennedy has been a visiting professor at Yale University, Princeton, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. Kennedy attended Ohio State University and received an honorary doctorate in 2003 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of her graduation.

"An elegiac wisp of a memory play by Adrienne Kennedy that reflects the all-too-frequent tragedy resulting from interracial love in the Jim Crow-era American South."
Thom Geier, The Wrap

"One of the American theater’s greatest and least compromising experimentalists... 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

"Ms. Kennedy remains one the harshest -- and most invaluable -- of the American theater’s conflicted sentimentalists."
Ben Brantley, 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."
Michael Feingold, Village Voice

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