Adrienne Kennedy’s Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?: Taking a Pause Out of the Pandemic

Adrienne Kennedy and Adam P. Kennedy wrote Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? in 2008. The play details in sweeping narration the manipulation of Adrienne Kennedy by the National Theatre of the 1960s. The Forward Theatre Production, directed by Baron Kelly, utilized “the pause” in the text to underscore the interior world of the character’s emotional state. This short article talks about how the play was received by the viewers as the theatre was beginning to transition out of the pandemic.