The America Play

The America Play
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1995
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822214236

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

The America Play and Other Works

The America Play and Other Works
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1559367369

"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.

Venus

Venus
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-12-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1559367385

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 General from America

The General from America
Author: Richard Nelson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2003
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573628597

In 1780, America's most successful General believed the War of Independence had lost its way. He decided to surrender his soldiers, hand over George Washington to the British and end the war. In America today, General Benedict Arnold is considered one of the most heinous men the world has ever known; in London, a plaque celebrates the house where he lived out his years in exile. Richard Nelson's haunting play presents a richly emotional portrait of a man searching for love and country, and finding only compromise and despair.

365 Days/365 Plays

365 Days/365 Plays
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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.

The Book of Grace

The Book of Grace
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 155936646X

"[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).

The Red Letter Plays

The Red Letter Plays
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781559361958

Two new controversial plays based on The Scarlett Letter.

Getting Mother's Body

Getting Mother's Body
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2004-04-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081296800X

Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried—or were they?—with Billy’s fast-running, six-years-dead mother, Willa Mae. Getting Mother’s Body is a true spiritual successor to the work of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker—but when it comes to bringing hard-luck characters to ingenious, uproarious life, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one.

Topdog/underdog

Topdog/underdog
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822219835

THE STORY: A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks' latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foret