Wednesday F Kennedy

21ST CENTURY SHOWGIRL>



'When I closed my eyes, I imagined myself as a burning ember at the centre of the universe, with all the eyes of the world focused on me. My heart was completely open, I had surrendered to the city and I was ready for anything it had to offer. I knew that something completely HUGE was about to happen. I could just feel it. I could feel it in every cell of my body. It made me bawl like a nervous bride and in between the weeping I'd go back to purring my mantra, ' I love New York and New York loves me. I love New York and New York loves me.' I was vibrating constantly like a wind up toy with a key that life kept cranking up and that I didn't know how to wind down again.
So I'd stand at my window all night. long after the last light had gone out on my block, and I'd wait for the garbage trucks to come rolling like tanks down 104th street And as the truck stopped directly under my window I'd frame the black shiny trash being hurled through the air and then I'd slow it all down like a ballet. I'd take portraits of the strong armed garbage collectors and I'd record their morning opera on my mini disc player. And just before the dawn I would turn my camera east and wait for the light to come creeping across Central Park.



I was so busy taking in the block I didn't bother with the skyline. Didn't see it until it had a hole in it. I never even saw those towers before they went down. It all went to shit after that. '



21ST CENTURY SHOWGIRL
a magical realist memoir



A MAGICAL REALIST MEMOIR ABOUT A CITY, A DREAM AND A PSYCHOPATH.



Reviews.
'A standard bearer at the front line of spoken word artists. Ms Kennedy, launches an album of spooky and sensual tracks made potent by a masterful sense of timing and post-everything sense of what performing artists should be doing with their sound equiptment and the minds of their audiences.'
Cal Clugston. Seven Flat 5. Revolver Magazine. 1999.
'Enter Wednesday Kennedy, The Muhammad-ali of performance poetry.'
Georgina Safe. The Australian. Aug 1999
Kennedy is an irresistible performer - truly the "It girl' for the new century. Part wide-eyed girl from the provinces, part glamorous chanteuse, the savvy performer's ironic humor and smoky contralto singing voice held the audience in thrall'.
Off Off Broadway review, August 2000
It's not only the accuracy of her jibes. It's the fact that, coming from 10 000 miles away she's so pluperfectly spot on target. She's wholly in the moment as parodist. She inhabits everything she attempts, risky or broad. Almost as sharp as the stuff Dennis Miller pulls off in his HBO half hour.
Marion Dreyfus, Theme stream. NY 2000
"She is a kaleidoscope of cultural characters we understand. Kennedy's outsider spin gives us a wonderful spin on cultural mainstays we take for granted. Welcome to America Wednesday. We're glad you came around to see us'.
Christine Sparta Showbusiness Review Weekly NY NY Sept 2000.



She is not afraid to say the unsayable.
Bernard Zuel. SMH.



Intimate and Deadly - Christine Anu.
Never has the spoken material in such a show seemed so spontaneous - tribute to Anu's delivery and to the writing of Wednesday Kennedy.
John Shand Sydney Morning Herald. Oct 2004



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LAST NIGHT IN NEW YORK. REVIEWS
Last night in New York speaks to the shape memory has taken since Sept 11th.
Jad Abumrad, Radio Lab WNYC.
Smart,sexy playing and writing.a real delight.
Tony McGregor, Radio Eye. ABC radio national.
Reminds me of when we were young and had the energy to create staggering works of heartbreaking
Genius.
Barrett Golding. Hearing Voices.com America
And when not showing, speaking. Speaking in poetry like a life sized breathing magic doll coming from some exotic Australian workshop, the string pulling itself, making her say the lyrics put in there by nobody
else. A sad, personal, optimistic, endearing performance.
Kalman Farago, Fusebox. Budapest. May 2003.



'Kennedy's perspective helps make the unreal real, and even if we cannot make sense of it, we can sense the making of the America that would soon wage wars in responseIt is sensational filmmaking, which is lent an added layer of density by Kennedy's lively spoken material
.John Shand. Sydney Morning Herald. September 7, 2004
LNNY reminded me of a New York that 911 made me forget, the place where millions come in order to be alone together. Kennedy rescues our ideas on post 9-11 New York, rescues them from the neat drawer where most documentaries had kept them filed.
Julian Ninio (Author of The Empire of Ignorance, Hypocrisy and Obedience)