Adrienne Kennedy is one of the few accomplished black playwrights who employs surrealism in her drama. Funnyhouse of A Negro (produced in 1962), her first produced work, earned an Obie Award in 1964 and established hers as a unique voice in the avant-garde theater of the 1960s. "While almost every black playwright in the country is fundamentally concerned with realism--LeRoi Jones and Ed Bullins at times have something different going but even their symbolism is straightforward stuff--Miss Kennedy is weaving some kind of dramatic fabric of poetry," observed New York Times critic Clive Barnes in a 1969 review. Kennedy's plays have been produced in major theaters in the United States and Europe, including the Royal Court Theatre and the National Theatre in London, the Petit Odeon in Paris, the Yale Repertory, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, and Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York. Several of her scripts have been translated...