Bibliography: Adrienne Kennedy

PLAYS by Adrienne Kennedy:

Funnyhouse of a Negro 1962.

The Owl Answers . 1963.

A Rat's Mass. 1967.

The Lennon play: In His Own Write (adapted from John Lennon) 1967.
A Lesson in Dead Language 1968.

A Beast's Story 1969.

Boats 1969.

Sun 1969.

Electra and Orestes (adapted from Euripides) 1972.

An Evening with Dead Essex 1972.

A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White 1976.

A Lancashire Lad 1980.

Black Children's Day 1980.

Diary of Lights 1987.

She Talks to Beethoven 1989.

The Ohio State Murders 1992.

The Film Club 1992.

The Dramatic Circle (radio play) 1992.

Motherhood 2000 1994.

June and Jean in Concert 1995.

Sleep Deprivation Chamber (with Adam Kennedy) 1996.

Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? (with Adam Kennedy) 2008.




INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES:

Binder, Wolfgang . "A MELUS Interview: Adrienne Kennedy." MELUS 12.3 (1985): 99-108.

Bryant-Jackson, Paul K.: "An Interview with Billie Allen." Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 216-23.

Bryant-Jackson, Paul K. "An Interview with Gerald Freedman." Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 206-15.

Bryant-Jackson, Paul K.: "Adrienne Kennedy: An Interview." Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 3-12.

Diamond, Elin. "An Interview with Adrienne Kennedy." Studies in American Drama, 1945-Present 4 (1989): 143-157.

Diamond, Elin. "Adrienne Kennedy." Philip C. Kolin, Philip C. and Colby H. Kullman (eds.). Speaking on Stage: Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1996. 125-37.

Kennedy, Adrienne. "A Growth of Images." Tulane Drama Review 21.4 (1977): 41-47.

McKittrick, Ryan. Aftershock - An Interview with Adrienne Kennedy. http://www.amrep.org/past/ohio/ohio2.html (27 May 2009).

Stein, Howard. "An Interview with Gaby Rodgers." Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 199-205.

Stein, Howard. "An Interview with Michael Kahn." Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 189-98.




GENERAL:

Achilles, Jochen. "African American Drama and Interracial Negotiations in 1964: James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie, Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro, and Imamu Amiri Baraka's The Slave." Heinz Antor and Klaus Stierstorfer (eds.). English Literatures in International Contexts. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag; 2000. 201-19.

Barnett, Claudia. "'An Evasion of Ontology': Being Adrienne Kennedy." The Drama Review 49.3 (2005): 157-86.

Barnett, Claudia. "Adrienne Kennedy and Shakespeare's Sister." American Drama 5.2 (1996): 44-56.

Bennett, Susan. "3-D A/B." Sherrill E. Grace and Jerry Wasserman (eds.). Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 2006. 33-48

Bryant-Jackson, Paul K. and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992.

Curb, Rosemary. "(Hetero)Sexual Terrors in Adrienne Kennedy's Early Plays." Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 142-56.

Fuchs, Elinor. "Adrienne Kennedy and the First Avant-Garde." Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 76-84.

Hartigan, Patti. "Adrienne Kennedy: A Fragile but Ferocious African-American Playwright." Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 28 (2000): 112-13.

Jones, Betty Jean. "Adrienne Kennedy's Dramatic Realism: Power and the Concept of Being in the American Drama." Marc Maufort and Jean-Pierre van Noppen (eds.). Voices of Power: Co-Operation and Conflict in English Language and Literatures. Liège: L3-Liège Language and Literature, for the Belgian Association of Anglists in Higher Education, 1997. 165-71.

Kolin, Philip C.: "American History/African Nightmare: Adrienne Kennedy and Civil Rights." Philip C. Kolin (ed.). Contemporary African American Women Playwrights. London: Routledge; 2007. 62-82.

Kolin, Philip C.: "A Classified Adrienne Kennedy Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography 59:2 (2002): 41-58.

Patsalidis, Savas. "Adrienne Kennedy's Heterotopias and the (Im)Possibilities of the (Black) Female Self." Marc Maufort (ed.). Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. 301-21.

Stascavage, Ann. "Adrienne Kennedy's Search for Identity: Mythmaking from Cultural Miscegenation." Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association 1990: 180-84.

Tener, Robert L.: "Adrienne Kennedy's Portrait of the Black Woman." Studies in Black Literature 6.2 (1975): 1-5.

Turner, Beth. "Adrienne Kennedy." Garrett Eisler (ed.). Twentieth-Century American Dramatists: Fifth Series. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2008. 82-91.

Wilkerson, Margaret B.: "Adrienne Kennedy." Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris (eds.). Afro-American Writers after 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1985. 162-169.




FUNNYHOUSE OF A NEGRO:

Barnett, Claudia. "A Prison of Object Relations: Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro." Modern Drama 40:3 (1997): 374-84.




A MOVIE STAR HAS TO STAR IN BLACK AND WHITE

Geis, Deborah. "'A Spectator Watching My Life': Adrienne Kennedy's A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White." Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck (eds.). Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 170-78.


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