FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 17, 2020 || CONTACT: Corinna Schulenburg: cschulenburg@tcg.org | 212-609-5941
New from TCG Books:
He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays
by Adrienne Kennedy
NEW YORK, NY – Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays by Adrienne Kennedy. He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box received its world premiere at Theatre for a New Audience in New York in the winter of 2018.
He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box is shaped like the shimmering and original scripts that made Kennedy’s name in the 1960s and have kept her in a place of her own in the New York theater scene ever since.” —Hilton Als, New Yorker
In her first new work in over a decade, Adrienne Kennedy traces the story of an interracial love affair in the 1940s, doomed by the devastating effects of segregation. This volume also includes the plays Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side and Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? (co-written with Adam P. Kennedy).
“In He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box the landscape is as ugly as it is beautiful, its filigree shaped from barbed wire…Only Tennessee Williams summons a cultural past with such a plangent mix of rhapsody and disgust.” —Ben Brantley, New York Times
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theater since the early 1960s. She is a three-time Obie Award winner for Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), June and Jean in Concert (1996), and Sleep Deprivation Chamber (1996), and she is the recipient of an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement. Ms. Kennedy was inducted into The Theater Hall of Fame in 2018.
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He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays
By Adrienne Kennedy
144 pages
November 2020
$16.95
Paperback
978-1-55936-965-7
eBook
978-1-55936-928-2
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