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The America Play and Other Works

Suzan-Lori Parks

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 1994
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.41in - 0.55in - 0.63lb
  • EAN: 9781559360920
  • Categories: American - African American & BlackCultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlWomen Authors

About the Author

Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the contemporary American theater's most innovative wordsmiths. Her plays include: Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer-nominee), Fucking A, Venus (OBIE Award), The America Play and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play). She is also a screenwriter, novelist, and MacArthur "Genius" grantee.

Praise for this book

"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