HE BROUGHT HER HEART BACK IN A BOX--Adrienne Kennedy

Adrienne Kennedy

A THINK TWICE DRAMA worth the wait:

HE BROUGHT HER HEART BACK IN A BOX

The sad, aching thing about Adrienne Kennedy’s new play set in the Jim Crow South of 1941 is how relevant it is today to our divided nation. This disturbing and haunted one act–produced by Theatre for a New Audience–is the world premiere of the first new Adrienne Kennedy play in almost a decade.

HE BROUGHT HER HEART BACK IN A BOX is a two-character dramatic recital as cerebral and deep as anything you may experience on the stage.  Under the often sweet surface, HEART simmers with rage against the violence of segregation and abuse of power in wartime Montefiore, Georgia.  And well beyond.

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