An online play, presented as part of The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence play festival produced in association with McCarter Theatre Center.
He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box
By Adrienne Kennedy
Streaming on demand beginning NOV 14, 2020
It is 1941, and Kay and Chris are in love. Yet the letters they exchange are not tender professions, but painful reminiscences—of Chris’ wealthy white father who laid the architecture for local segregation, of Kay’s brutalized Black mother whose death remains a mystery, and of the myriad forces that separate them. Written in 2018, Adrienne Kennedy’s newest work is a brief but expansive memory play that conjures “dread, romance and a tragic surrealism all at once” (New York Times). He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box is a heartbreaking collage of family memories, historical specters, and theatrical allusions, hypnotically woven together with a poetry that is distinctively Kennedy’s own.
$15 Digital tickets
Phone: 240-644-1100
Email: boxoffice@roundhousetheatre.org
2020/11/14 - 2021/02/28
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NOTE: This play will be available on demand through February 2021.
Online/Virtual Space