Laurence Carr

Kennedy at Colonus, examines the political rise of Robert F. Kennedy, a dynamic and tragic American hero in a series of powerful scenes that range from his childhood in 1936 through the night of his assassination in Los Angeles in 1968. The play reveals how a man from one of America’s most prominent families moves from the shadows of his brothers, Joe Jr. and Jack, to become a man of action and commitment. Audiences will also meet such iconic figures as Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Ethel Kennedy, and James Hoffa, among others. The play focuses on the turbulent world of the 1960s when war, racism and class struggles were cracking the foundations of the United States.