Sleep Deprivation Chamber

Sleep Deprivation Chamber

By Adam Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy
Paperback $14.95

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Publication Date: 1st November 1996

Based on an actual experience, Sleep Deprivation Chamber depicts the emotional devastation of police brutality and the criminal justice system on a highly educated, middle class black family.

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Based on an actual experience, Sleep Deprivation Chamber depicts the emotional devastation of police brutality and the criminal justice system on a highly educated, middle class black family.

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Description

Winner of the 1996 OBIE Award for Best Play

A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the Black experience of twentieth-century America.

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 (subsequently accused of assaulting the offending officer) with his mother's poignant letters of defense and remembrance.

Details
  • Price: $14.95
  • Pages: 112
  • Carton Quantity: 124
  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
  • Imprint: Theatre Communications Group
  • Publication Date: 1st November 1996
  • Trim Size: 5.4 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781559361262
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
    DRAMA / Women Authors
    DRAMA / Subjects & Themes / Diversity & Multicultural
    DRAMA / American / African American
    DRAMA / Contemporary
Reviews

The most powerful play I've seen in many years.
—Ishmael Reed, composer, playwright, publisher, multi-hyphenate

Author Bio

Adam P. Kennedy is a writer and producer. His television production company, R.A.V.E., has produced shows for teens that have aired nationally on PBS and network television, including Africa/USA: The Connection; The World Connection, a three-part series; and Phat Traks, a weekly hip-hop music program. In 1997, Kennedy, along with Karen Lauder and Marcus Ticotin, founded Abandon Entertainment, a television and movie company. His eponymous Kennedy Publishing won the 2007 the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature, for Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles.

Adrienne Kennedy has been an important figure in the American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights. She is a three-time Obie-award winning playwright, including Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964 and June and Jean in Concert in 1996. Among Kennedy's many honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters award and the Guggenheim fellowship. She has been commissioned to write works for the Public Theater, Jerome Robbins, the Royal Court Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and Juilliard. In 1995-1996, Signature Theatre Company dedicated its entire season to presenting her works. Kennedy has been a visiting professor at Yale University, Princeton, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. Kennedy attended Ohio State University and received an honorary doctorate in 2003 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of her graduation.

Winner of the 1996 OBIE Award for Best Play

A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the Black experience of twentieth-century America.

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 (subsequently accused of assaulting the offending officer) with his mother's poignant letters of defense and remembrance.

  • Price: $14.95
  • Pages: 112
  • Carton Quantity: 124
  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
  • Imprint: Theatre Communications Group
  • Publication Date: 1st November 1996
  • Trim Size: 5.4 x 8.5 in
  • ISBN: 9781559361262
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
    DRAMA / Women Authors
    DRAMA / Subjects & Themes / Diversity & Multicultural
    DRAMA / American / African American
    DRAMA / Contemporary

The most powerful play I've seen in many years.
—Ishmael Reed, composer, playwright, publisher, multi-hyphenate

Adam P. Kennedy is a writer and producer. His television production company, R.A.V.E., has produced shows for teens that have aired nationally on PBS and network television, including Africa/USA: The Connection; The World Connection, a three-part series; and Phat Traks, a weekly hip-hop music program. In 1997, Kennedy, along with Karen Lauder and Marcus Ticotin, founded Abandon Entertainment, a television and movie company. His eponymous Kennedy Publishing won the 2007 the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature, for Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles.

Adrienne Kennedy has been an important figure in the American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights. She is a three-time Obie-award winning playwright, including Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964 and June and Jean in Concert in 1996. Among Kennedy's many honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters award and the Guggenheim fellowship. She has been commissioned to write works for the Public Theater, Jerome Robbins, the Royal Court Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and Juilliard. In 1995-1996, Signature Theatre Company dedicated its entire season to presenting her works. Kennedy has been a visiting professor at Yale University, Princeton, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. Kennedy attended Ohio State University and received an honorary doctorate in 2003 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of her graduation.