The Kentucky Cycle | |
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Written by | Robert Schenkkan |
Date premiered | 1991 |
Place premiered | Intiman Theatre Seattle, Washington |
Original language | English |
Subject | An epic of three families spanning 200 years of American history, in Kentucky |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | Kentucky, 1775-1975 |
The Kentucky Cycle is a series of nine one-act plays by Robert Schenkkan that explores American mythology, particularly the mythology of the West, through the intertwined histories of three fictional families struggling over a portion of land in the Cumberland Plateau. The play won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.