Funnyhouse of a Negro | |
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Written by | Adrienne Kennedy |
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Date premiered | January 14, 1964 |
Place premiered | East End Theater, NYC |
Original language | English |
Genre | Drama, one-act play |
Funnyhouse of a Negro is a one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy. The play opened off-Broadway in 1964 and won the Obie Award for Distinguished Play.[1] The play shared this award with Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, and was influenced by her radical imagination; critics have read it in conversation with both the Black Arts Movement and the Theater of the Absurd.[2] While the play has been produced on stage numerous times, it has been more frequently studied in academic settings than it has been produced.[3]