Sleep Deprivation Chamber
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Playwrights Canada Press · Ebook · November 1, 1996
Winner of the 1996 OBIE Award for Best Play A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the Black experience of twentieth-century America.
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- Who it’s for
- A suburban Virginia beating and its trial unfold alongside a mother's letters.
- Genres
- African American Plays, American Plays, African American Studies
- Published
- Playwrights Canada Press, November 1, 1996
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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. Read more
Trial and Letters
A suburban Virginia beating and its trial unfold alongside a mother's letters.
Come here for
- A suburban Virginia beating and the trial that follows
- A mother's letters of defense and remembrance
Expect
- The accused son's trial, interwoven with his mother's letters
- Conflicting realities of Black life in twentieth-century America
Where it sits
| African American Plays | 95% |
|---|---|
| American Plays | 57% |
| African American Studies | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Plays
- African American Studies
- Authors
- Adam Kennedy, Adrienne Kennedy, Adam P. Kennedy
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Published
- November 1, 1996
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Plays