History Theatre / KennedysChildren

* WhoShotJFK: Wanda airs some theories on that subject, verging on a massive GambitPileup, when considering who did it: Oswald, the Mafia, the CIA, the Cubans, the Soviets, or [[UpToEleven all of them combined]].

'''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:

* BarefootPoverty: Rona explains why the hippies used sandals. They couldn´t afford anything else.

* 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.

* 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 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.

* TheQuietOne: The bartender, whose only role seems to be as TheConfidante, while constantly filling up their glasses.

* WhoShotJFK?: Wanda airs some theories on that subject, verging on a massive GambitPileup, when considering who did it: Oswald, the Mafia, the CIA, the Cubans, the Soviets, or [[UpToEleven all of them combined]].
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The setting, although the characters don´t really ''meet''.

* 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.

* Carla, a B-movie actress, who wishes, more than anything else, to be the next MarilynMonroe.

* 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.

* BigAppleSauce: The bar is sited somewhere on the Upper East Side.

* AmericanDream: Deconstructed, subverted and pissed upon. Wanda, the most average of the lot, states that the dream died with Kennedy.

* Mark, a ShellShockedVeteran from the VietnamWar, coping with drug abuse and not coming free from his war memories.

* TheVietnamWar: Mark fought in it. Rona fought ''against'' it, as one of many cases she was marching against.