Diary of Lights: New York About 1955
by Adrienne Kennedy
Synopsis
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in the American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing several generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas.
Diary of Lights: New York About 1955 is a series of scenes which depict a group of friends during one evening in New York City, in the mid-50s.
Part dramatic literature, part dance, and part musical theatre, Diary of Lights is a window into a part of American culture, expressed through the unique voice of one of America's most formidable dramatists.
Press Reviews
"To many, Ms. Kennedy has blended the surreal and the social to invent a new dramatic form." - The New York Times"[Kennedy creates] hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas [that powerfully explore] the violence racism visits on people’s lives."
— Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Characters
| Character |
|---|
BILLIE comic, sweet, and ultimately very serious; Macy-type cotton dress, white wedgies. |
EDDIE very serious; has on a V-neck sweater and khakis. |
AARON seersucker jacket and trousers. |
MARGO very intellectual and bohemian; Mexican wedding shirt, very long straight hair; smokes cigars, wears sandals. |
MAVIS very pretty; white dress and red stole, very wavy black hair piled on top of her head in curls. |
ROY frank; seersucker suit. |
ELLEN'S |
BOYFRIEND very well read |
AISHA & |
MOHAMMED a couple from Egypt; shy |
Publication
Diary of Lights: New York About 1955 is a play written by Adrienne Kennedy and published by Samuel French (2015).
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Samuel French · 2015 · 40 pp
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