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On April 23^rd, the playwright Robert Patrick passed away at the age of 85.

Bob, as he insisted on being called, was probably best known for his play Kennedy's Children, which leapt from a small production on the London Fringe to Broadway in 1975.

Bob was a good friend to EdTA. He wrote lots of articles for Dramatics magazine and taught playwriting at state conferences and ITF in the '70's and 80s's.  (When I attended Internationals in Muncie in 1982, his workshop was so popular that I couldn't get in the first time I tried.)  

Kennedy's Children would be an excellent addition to your classroom theatre library. The five intertwined monologues that the play consists of are a little mature for most students, but the play itself is a great example of how to weave stories together.  And if you're looking to introduce your students (or yourself) to Bob's work, seek out his mini two-hander Camera Obscura, which had hundreds of high school productions in the '70s. Camera Obscura is an exercise in concentration (for the actors) and frustration (for the characters.) Two young would-be lovers have five minutes to try to communicate across an unexplained five-second delay. It's a lovely introduction to the work of a lovely man.

On April 23^rd, the playwright Robert Patrick passed away at the age of 85.

Bob, as he insisted on being called, was probably best known for his play Kennedy's Children, which leapt from a small production on the London Fringe to Broadway in 1975.

Bob was a good friend to EdTA. He wrote lots of articles for Dramatics magazine and taught playwriting at state conferences and ITF in the '70's and 80s's.  (When I attended Internationals in Muncie in 1982, his workshop was so popular that I couldn't get in the first time I tried.)  

Kennedy's Children would be an excellent addition to your classroom theatre library. The five intertwined monologues that the play consists of are a little mature for most students, but the play itself is a great example of how to weave stories together.  And if you're looking to introduce your students (or yourself) to Bob's work, seek out his mini two-hander Camera Obscura, which had hundreds of high school productions in the '70s. Camera Obscura is an exercise in concentration (for the actors) and frustration (for the characters.) Two young would-be lovers have five minutes to try to communicate across an unexplained five-second delay. It's a lovely introduction to the work of a lovely man.

I saw this on Facebook.  He was a lovely man.  I met him years and years ago - early 90s? - and had some great conversations about what was going on in New York theatre at the time.  

On April 23^rd, the playwright Robert Patrick passed away at the age of 85.

Bob, as he insisted on being called, was probably best known for his play Kennedy's Children, which leapt from a small production on the London Fringe to Broadway in 1975.

Bob was a good friend to EdTA. He wrote lots of articles for Dramatics magazine and taught playwriting at state conferences and ITF in the '70's and 80s's.  (When I attended Internationals in Muncie in 1982, his workshop was so popular that I couldn't get in the first time I tried.)  

Kennedy's Children would be an excellent addition to your classroom theatre library. The five intertwined monologues that the play consists of are a little mature for most students, but the play itself is a great example of how to weave stories together.  And if you're looking to introduce your students (or yourself) to Bob's work, seek out his mini two-hander Camera Obscura, which had hundreds of high school productions in the '70s. Camera Obscura is an exercise in concentration (for the actors) and frustration (for the characters.) Two young would-be lovers have five minutes to try to communicate across an unexplained five-second delay. It's a lovely introduction to the work of a lovely man.