The America Play, and Other Works

The America Play, and Other Works PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"Parks 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.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--Vogue

The America Play, and Other Works

The America Play, and Other Works PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Book Description
"Parks 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.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--Vogue

The America Play

The America Play PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822214236
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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THE STORY: 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 the daily historical parades. One of these visi

Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom

Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Sun & Moon
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Length: 4 parts.

Venus

Venus PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death.

The America Play and Other Works

The America Play and Other Works PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367369
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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"Parks 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.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--Vogue A collection of plays and essays by one of America's premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on Dust Commander, Pickling, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, and The America Play.

The Red Letter Plays

The Red Letter Plays PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361958
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Two new controversial plays based on The Scarlett Letter.

The Book of Grace

The Book of Grace PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 155936646X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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"[Suzan-Lori Parks'] dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous."—Time "An original whose fierce intelligence and fearless approach to craft subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh."—August Wilson Named one of the "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave" by Time magazine, Suzan-Lori Parks is a truly original voice of the American theater. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur "Genius" Award, Parks is renowned for her groundbreaking language, theatricality, and an aesthetic that continues to evolve in unexpected ways. Her first full-length play since her award-winning Topdog/Underdog, The Book of Grace is a scorching three-person drama in which a young man returns home to south Texas to confront his father, unearthing deep-seated passions and ambition. The play premiered in spring 2010 at the Public Theater, where Parks is in the midst of a three-year residency as the first recipient of the theater's master writer chair. Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright, screenwriter, songwriter, and novelist. Her plays include Topdog/Underdog (winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize), In the Blood (a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (OBIE Award winner) and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play).

365 Days/365 Plays

365 Days/365 Plays PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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On November 13, 2002, the author decided to write a play every day for a year. She began that same day. The result, completed exactly one year later, is this collection of 365 plays.

Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) PDF Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559368179
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—The New York Times "Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."—New York Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present. Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks PDF Author: Deborah R. Geis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472069462
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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The latest addition to the Michigan Modern Dramatists series offers an indispensable guide to Parks's dramatic works, taking a close look at her major plays and placing them in context. Deborah R. Geis traces the evolution of Parks's art from her earliest experimental pieces to the hugely popular Topdog/Underdog to her wide-ranging forays into fiction, music, and film."--pub. desc.