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The Kentucky Cycle
Written byRobert Schenkkan
Date premiered1991
Place premieredIntiman Theatre
Seattle, Washington
Original languageEnglish
SubjectAn epic of three families spanning 200 years of American history, in Kentucky
GenreDrama
SettingKentucky, 1775-1975

The Kentucky Cycle is a series of nine one-act plays by Robert Schenkkan that explores American mythology, particularly the mythology of the West, through the intertwined histories of three fictional families struggling over a portion of land in the Cumberland Plateau. The play won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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