She Talks to Beethoven
by Adrienne Kennedy
Synopsis
She Talks to Beethoven , written by pioneering avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy in 1989, offers a layered discourse on politics, revolution and loss.
Set in Ghana, Suzanne waits in her room listening to radio broadcasts about her husband who has mysteriously disappeared while she attempts to write about and communicate with composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Her world is infiltrated by snatches of Ghanaian string music, the revolutionary words of Frantz Fanon and strains of Beethoven's Fidelio .
Suzanne, recovering from an unspecified illness hovers in displaced time and space fluctuating between Vienna, Austria, in 1803, and Accra, Ghana, in 1961.
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
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Suzanne Alexander A Writer |
Ludwig Van Beethoven |
Publication
She Talks to Beethoven is a play written by Adrienne Kennedy and published by Samuel French (2015).
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Samuel French · 2015
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