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* HeroicBSOD: Rona and Mark in different ways. Mark snaps out of it. Robbie (married to Rona), seems to have an extreme case of it, having given up on every cause altogether. Rona, while drinking night away, still has some hope of reviving her cause. The case of Robbie is so severe that he drags her down with him, causing her to flee to the bar instead. When she tries to comfort him, his only answer tends to be:
---> Whatever. Who do you wish me to be? ''Lee Harvey Oswald''?
---> Whatever. Who do you wish me to be? ''Lee Harvey Oswald''?
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* JohnFKennedy: His death is the one great premise of the play (Wanda´s speech revolves solely around his fate). The other one is, of course, the war in Vietnam (Filling up most of Mark´s speech). The five characters are labeled "Kennedy´s children" because all of them are marked by that era in different ways.
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* TheVietnamWar: Mark fought in it. Rona fought ''against'' it, as one of many cases she was marching against.
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Rona, but her husband Robbie even more so. Most blatantly when he went all the way down to Dallas to take LSD at the murder site of S.F. Kennedy, to get a broader understanding of the incident. Robbie´s antics in the period, as told by Rona, makes him much of an EruditeStoner.
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Rona, but her husband Robbie even more so. Most blatantly when he went all the way down to Dallas to take LSD at the murder site of S.F. President Kennedy, to get a broader understanding of the incident. Robbie´s antics in the period, as told by Rona, makes him much of an EruditeStoner.
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Rona, but her husband Robbie even more so. Most blatantly when he went all the way down to Dallas to take LSD at the murder site of S.F. Kennedy, to get a broader understanding of the incident. Robbie´s antics in the period, as told by Rona, makes him much of an EruditeStoner.
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* AmericanDream: Deconstructed, subverted and pissed upon. Wanda, the most average of the lot, states that the dream died with Kennedy.
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* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Carla states that too many girls in her position have done this. She tried it once. If anything made her a BrokenBird, it was that experience.
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* FlamboyantGay: Sparger.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: All of them.
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* TheParanoiac: Mark is ''really'' far out after his Vietnam experience.
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* NonSequitur: Ever so often when one character continues his or her dialogue after another stops for a moment. Because their lives differ greatly, this is bound to happen. Also because none of them seem to be aware of the others. Sometimes, this is replaced by an AnswerCut.
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** When you consider the five to represent five varieties of common Americans at the time (all of them white though), the brokenness might be interpreted to span the entire country.
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* {{Determinator}}: At the end of the play, each of the characters decide to struggle on. Mark is the only one to get up and leave the place, insistent on building his life up again. Carla is determined on her goals, and Rona still thinks her cause has a chance.
* DrowningMySorrows: All of them drink the night away.
* DrowningMySorrows: All of them drink the night away.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The political situation as it evolved after 1970, boils down to this, according to Rona, stating that the Civil Rights Movement (the blacks) and the Indians both have dumped the hippies, although their cause seems to be the same. No wonder she is a little bit down.
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* MindScrew: Most of the theatrical productions Sparger has been involved in, is so experimental that his re-tellings verges on this. As an actor, he is clearly on the modernist level. Thus, he works a a foil to Carla, who wishes to excel in fame and stardom. Not that anyone of them succeeds.
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* SpeechCentricWork: This one is a prominent example.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: None of the characters adress eachother, but they clearly adress the audience. Only Sparger, at first, seems to adress the bartender. A TV production of the play had the actors looking more or less at the camera all the time.
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* IJustWantToBeFamous: Carla. And ''damn'' does she work hard for it as well. But she has ended up at the B-rating because she is unwilling to get laid for the sake of success, although she did it once. The memory of that experience sends her straight to the bathroom.
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* TheEveryman: Wanda more than the others. She is the only one without any particular quirks or traits.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: All the time. Justified because the New York weather in february usually boils down to this.
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* BigAppleSauce: The bar is sited somewhere on the Upper East Side.
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* ShoutOut: ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'', mentioned by Wanda. She compares the ideal picture of the Kennedy couple with the play, and the loss of the "good president" as similar to the passing of the Arthurian age. The reveals that the Kennedy couple, and the life of the president, was not so glamorous after all, does not sit well with her.
** The play also shouts out to a lot of musical phenomena, and a number of bands.
** The play also shouts out to a lot of musical phenomena, and a number of bands.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Most visible is the Kennedy assassination. Then, there is a mention of the murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Also a lot of protest marches, the Kent state massacre, the May riots in Paris and so on. Rona is the worst offender on this.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Rona is pretty clear on this. The term "hippie" was reckoned as a derogatory term inside the movement itself, and they accepted it with reluctance.
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* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: Rona´s sister freaked out when she came home as a hippie. She had deduced from the news that the hippies beat up people because they were constantly in trouble with the police force.
* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: Rona´s sister freaked out when she came home as a hippie. She had deduced from the news that the hippies beat up people because they were constantly in trouble with the police force.
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* GranolaGirl: Rona. It comes with the hippie staple.
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'''Kennedy´s Children''' is a stage play written by American playwright Robert Patrick in 1976. It consists of five intertwining monologues, given by five people, all relating their experiences during TheSixties. They all gather at Valentine´s day 1974. The five are:
* Rona, a NewAgeRetroHippie, who tells in chronological order of her life as a political activist, from 1960 to 1969, and lamenting how the movement slowly decayed and collapsed in drug abuse.
* Wanda, a teacher of disabled children, who saw the assassination of John F. Kennedy as the pivotal point in her life, and who laments the loss of innocence in her country after the Kennedy years.
* Carla, a B-movie actress, who wishes, more than anything else, to be the next MarilynMonroe.
* Sparger, a FlamboyantGay actor, lost in the constant work on small, off Broadway stages.
* Mark, a ShellShockedVeteran from the VietnamWar, coping with drug abuse and not coming free from his war memories.
* There is also a bartender present, quietly serving drinks.
The monologues intertwine, but none of them adresses the others, all of them are rambling on their own lives - but they also intertwine, giving a fractured and rather meaningful picture of the era.
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* BarefootPoverty: Rona explains why the hippies used sandals. They couldn´t afford anything else.
* BrokenBird: Pretty much all of them.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Touched upon several times. Robbie, Rona´s husband, clearly is one. Mark likewise, being ProperlyParanoid after his war experience. Even Wanda gets into it at one point, more on the question of WhoShotJfk.
* CrapsackWorld: The premise of the play is that the United States have lost something, and all of the characters feel they live in one.
* EndOfAnAge: Discussed in several ways. For Wanda, the age ended with the death of Kennedy. For Rona, it ended with the Kent State Massacre.
* GlassesPull: Sparger begins with his CoolShades on, in spite of the rain outside. As his monologue progresses, he takes them off, as he slowly becomes more sincere.
* {{Gorn}}: Sparger relates how his mentor Buffo killed himself with an axe.
* FlamboyantGay: Sparger.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Rona, still wearing her original hippie clothes in TheSeventies.
* RapeAsDrama: Sparger, being a teenage crossdresser, was nearly raped by a couple of sailors, and then beaten when they understood he was not a girl.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Mark, and you can hardly blame him.
* TheStoner: Mark. He picked up the habit in Vietnam.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Three of the characters run for the bathroom in succession, when their memories overwhelm them.
* WeAllMeetAtAnInn: The setting, although the characters don´t really ''meet''.
* Rona, a NewAgeRetroHippie, who tells in chronological order of her life as a political activist, from 1960 to 1969, and lamenting how the movement slowly decayed and collapsed in drug abuse.
* Wanda, a teacher of disabled children, who saw the assassination of John F. Kennedy as the pivotal point in her life, and who laments the loss of innocence in her country after the Kennedy years.
* Carla, a B-movie actress, who wishes, more than anything else, to be the next MarilynMonroe.
* Sparger, a FlamboyantGay actor, lost in the constant work on small, off Broadway stages.
* Mark, a ShellShockedVeteran from the VietnamWar, coping with drug abuse and not coming free from his war memories.
* There is also a bartender present, quietly serving drinks.
The monologues intertwine, but none of them adresses the others, all of them are rambling on their own lives - but they also intertwine, giving a fractured and rather meaningful picture of the era.
!!! Tropes:
* BarefootPoverty: Rona explains why the hippies used sandals. They couldn´t afford anything else.
* BrokenBird: Pretty much all of them.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Touched upon several times. Robbie, Rona´s husband, clearly is one. Mark likewise, being ProperlyParanoid after his war experience. Even Wanda gets into it at one point, more on the question of WhoShotJfk.
* CrapsackWorld: The premise of the play is that the United States have lost something, and all of the characters feel they live in one.
* EndOfAnAge: Discussed in several ways. For Wanda, the age ended with the death of Kennedy. For Rona, it ended with the Kent State Massacre.
* GlassesPull: Sparger begins with his CoolShades on, in spite of the rain outside. As his monologue progresses, he takes them off, as he slowly becomes more sincere.
* {{Gorn}}: Sparger relates how his mentor Buffo killed himself with an axe.
* FlamboyantGay: Sparger.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Rona, still wearing her original hippie clothes in TheSeventies.
* RapeAsDrama: Sparger, being a teenage crossdresser, was nearly raped by a couple of sailors, and then beaten when they understood he was not a girl.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Mark, and you can hardly blame him.
* TheStoner: Mark. He picked up the habit in Vietnam.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Three of the characters run for the bathroom in succession, when their memories overwhelm them.
* WeAllMeetAtAnInn: The setting, although the characters don´t really ''meet''.
