CoffeeHouse Chronicles #117: Adrienne Kennedy

The next edition of CoffeeHouse Chronicles celebrating Adrienne Kennedy, will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 3pm in The Club at La MaMa. Erik Ehn will moderate a panel that includes Alisa Solomon, Evan Yionoulis, Robert Heide, Charlotte Brathwaite and Rebecca Clark.

Performances: 

Scenes from SHE TALKS TO BEETHOVEN directed by Charlotte Brathwaite

Excerpts from THE OWL ANSWERS & FUNNYHOUSE OF A NEGRO directed by Rebecca Clark

Screenings: THE VOYAGE

Documenary footage of The Kennedy family journeying to West Africa fall 1960 on The Queen Mary. It was during this trip that FUNNYHOUSE OF A NEGRO was written.

Excerpts from films which influenced Adrienne Kennedy’s work & archival performance footage to be named later will also be included.

Coffeehouse Chronicles Series Director: Michal Gamily