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Author Suzan-Lori Parks
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365 Days - 365 Plays
“The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed…
The American Play and Other Works - Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom & Betting on the Dust Commander & Pickling & The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire & Devotees in the Garden of Love + Essays
Parks brings a powerful African American female perspective to contemporary avant-garde theater—or perhaps it’s the other way around. This volume covers her career from its beginning in the…
Venus
8 Male, 4 Female
In 1810, The Venus Hottentot (as she is dubbed)—a young black woman with an enormous posterior—is lured away from her menial job in South Africa to tour the world and make lots of money. Once in England,…
The Red Letter Plays - In the Blood & Fucking A
Large Mixed Cast Male, 7 Female
The playwright who “has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way”…
In the Blood
3 Male, 3 Female
In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and…
The American Play
3 Male, 2 Female
Once upon a time there was a theme park called the Great Hole of History. It was a popular spot for honeymooners who, in search of “post-nuptial excitement,” would visit this hole and watch…
Topdog/Underdog - 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
2 Male, 0 Female
An extraordinary new departure for this leading black American woman playwright - a piercing play about two men This darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks's latest…
