Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? review " moving account of a Black female playwright in 60s London
Minerva, ChichesterRakie Ayola excels as Adrienne Kennedy, whose John Lennon play was taken up by Laurence Olivier's National Theatre while she was sidelined, in this crystal-clear production of her autobiographical tale By the mid-60s, Adrienne Kennedy (b.1931) had won her first Obie award, for Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), while her drama The Owl Answers was being performed at the Theatre de Lys in New York. A prod…