Deadly Triplets

The highly experimental nature of Adrienne Kennedy’s plays transformed the landscape of Black American theatre in the past two decades and yet, oddly, left her on the periphery of her field, often feeling like an uninvited guest. Infused with colliding images of torment and tranquility, violence and peace, horror and beauty, her surrealistic dramas open a window into her own life. “The characters are myself,” she has said, the condensed expression of a theatrical mind that integrates diverse aut