She Talks to Beethoven

She Talks to Beethoven written by pioneering avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy in 1989 offers a layered discourse on politics revolution and loss. Set in Ghana Suzanne waits in her room listening to radio broadcasts about her husband who has mysteriously disappeared while she attempts to write about and communicate with composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Her world is infiltrated by snatches of Ghanaian string music the revolutionary words of Frantz Fanon and strains of Beethoven's