Sleep Deprivation Chamber - by Adam Kennedy & Adrienne Kennedy (Paperback)

About the Book

The newest play--and first collaboration--by renowned playwright Adrienne Kennedy.

Book Synopsis

The newest play--and first collaboration--by renowned playwright Adrienne Kennedy.

From the Back Cover

In this autobiographical drama, a broken taillight leads to the brutal beating of a highly educated, middle-class black man by a policeman in suburban Virginia. The Kennedys interweave the trial of the victimized son (accused of assaulting the offending officer) with the mother's poignant letters in his defense and her remembrances of growing up in the 1940s, when her parents were striving "to make Cleveland a better place for Negroes". They have created a gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience in twentieth-century America.