 THE
OHIO STATE MURDERS
by Adrienne Kennedy
directed by Marcus Stern
set design by Molly Hughes
costume design by Viola Mackenthun
lighting design by John
Ambrosone
sound design by Christopher
Walker
stage manager Anne S. King
At the Hasty Pudding Theatre,
March 31 - April 16, 2000
Cast
- Synopsis
- Reading_List
- Photos - Related_Links
From Obie-winning dramatist Adrienne Kennedy
comes a deeply personal, searing fable of
self-discovery and loss. When a young student
arrives at Ohio State University, she little
suspects that the academic sanctuary harbors dark
forces of hatred, even death. The Ohio State
Murders is a haunting study of lost innocence
and the birth of racial awareness from one of our
greatest living playwrights.
Special thanks to The Harold and
Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting new
American plays at the A.R.T.
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Cast
Synopsis
Ohio State University invites alumna Suzanne Alexander to speak about
the violent imagery in her writing. To explain her work, Alexander relates
her experiences at the university in the 1950s. The narrator's meditation
on the past sets horrific scenes of racial discrimination, self-torture,
and murder against the chilling backdrop of '50s academia. A playwright
inspired by the work of Federico García Lorca, Tennessee Williams,
and Alfred Hitchcock, Adrienne Kennedy
combines striking imagery with suspenseful interior monologue.
Reading List
- The Alexander Plays, by Adrienne Kennedy, University
of Minnesota Press, $15.95
includes The Ohio State
Murders
- Also by Adrienne Kennedy
- Adrienne Kennedy in One Act, University of Minnesota
Press, $10.95
- Deadly Triplets : A Theatre Mystery and Journal (Emergent
Literatures), University of Minnesota Press, $14.95
- Funnyhouse of a Negro, Samuel French Trade, $3.50
- People Who Led to My Plays, Theatre Communications
Group, $14.95
- American Feminist Playwrights, by Sally Burke, Twayne
Publishing, $19.00
- Feminist Theatre, by Helene Keyssar, St. Martin's Press,
$39.00
- Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy,
by Lois More Overbeck (editor),University of Minnesota Press,
$18.95
- Modern American Drama: The Female Canon, by June Scheuter
(editor), Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, $19.95
- Speaking on Stage: Interviews With Contemporary American
Playwrights, by Philip Kolin (editor), Colby H. Kullman
(editor), University of Alabama Press, $29.95
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