Sleep Deprivation Chamber - Acting Edition

THE STORY: In this autobiographical drama, a broken taillight leads to the brutal beating of a highly educated, middle-class black man by a policeman in suburban Virginia. The Kennedys interweave the trial of the victimized son (accused of assaulting the offending officer) with the mother's poignant letters in his defense and her remembrances of growing up in the 1940s, when her parents were striving to make Cleveland a better place for Negroes. They have created a gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience in twentieth-century America.Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy is the author of 'Sleep Deprivation Chamber - Acting Edition', published 2001 under ISBN 9780822218128 and ISBN 0822218127.