Deadly Triplets
Deadly Triplets: A Theatre Mystery and Journal
Adrienne Kennedy
Series: Emergent Literatures
Copyright Date: 1990
Edition: NED - New edition
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 140
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Deadly Triplets
Book Description:

A surrealistic intertwining of mystery and autobiography set in the theatre world of 1960s London.

eISBN: 978-0-8166-8333-8
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
  3. Preface
    Preface (pp. vii-xii)
  4. A Theatre Mystery Deadly Triplets
    A Theatre Mystery Deadly Triplets (pp. 1-92)

    Last night John Lennon was murdered at the Dakota apartment in New York City four blocks from where I am now living. I find it a strange and terrible coincidence that several years ago I started writing a play based on Lennon’s nonsenseIn His Own WriteandA Spaniard in the Worksin a studio at the top of the Dakota apartments and that the writing of that play led to my being involved in a mysterious and brutal death. A murder most unexpected.

    My theatrical producers, who let me use the studio in the Dakota to write, put...

  5. Illustrations
    Illustrations (pp. 93-96)
  6. A Theatre Journal
    A Theatre Journal (pp. 97-124)

    In 1981 when I was teaching at Berkeley, I decided to write a piece entitledPeople I’ve Met in the Theatre.I belonged a group of writers who met on Sunday evenings on college Ave. One evening they asked me about winning the Obie. They wanted to hear about off-Broadway in the sixties. They wanted to hear about my meeting the Beatles during my stay in London, one of them said what a “glorious past” you’ve had. I remembered a film producer in London had asked me to do a screenplay on my life there, as a Black in 1966...

  7. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 125-125)
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