Sleep deprivation chamber
Subtitle: a theatre piece
By: by Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy.
Contributors: Kennedy, Adrienne.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: African American men -- Drama; Mothers and sons -- Drama; Police brutality -- Drama; Suburban life -- Drama; Virginia -- Drama
Description: 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.