The Owl Answers
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The Owl Answers is a one-act experimental play by Adrienne Kennedy. It premiered in 1965 at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut one year after Kennedy's most well-known piece, the Obie Award-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro.[1][2] Subsequent productions have been alongside another of Kennedy's one-acts, A Beast Story, as Cities in Bezique.[3]
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The Owl Answers | |
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Written by | Adrienne Kennedy |
Characters | She Bastard's Black Mother Goddam Father The White Bird The Negro Man Shakespeare Chaucer William the Conqueror |
Date premiered | 1965 |
Place premiered | White Barn Theatre, Westport, CT |
Original language | English |
Subject | Race-relations Mortality Memory Identity |
Genre | Avant-garde |
Setting | New York Subway Tower of London Harlem hotel room St. Peter's |
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