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This time last year, it was pretty common to read speculation about what kinds of art might emerge from the pandemic lockdown. Kennedy, who s mostly been known as a director of flashy musicals, and who for years booked entertainment for cruise ships, said he was inspired to write his first play after the world shut down last year. With time on his hands, Kennedy s thoughts turned to his upbringing in the small North Carolina town where he grew up, and the weekly gathering of women who benevolently manipulated the affairs of the people who lived there. (Kennedy said he s convinced that he wound up going to the University of North Carolina Greensboro because that s where the gathering of women his play is based on decided he should go.)

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