Name: White Noise
ISBN: 9781559369503

White Noise

Suzan-Lori Parks

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Leo, Misha, Ralph, and Dawn are old friends. The two couples have a lot in common--good educations, progressive politics, a taste for culture. But when a racially motivated incident with the cops leaves Leo shaken, he decides he must take extreme measures in order to survive. Suzan-Lori Parks' newest work reveals how easily fissures can form in the social contracts we build with one another when confronted with difficult questions about race and identity.

Book Details

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publish Date: Dec 9th, 2025
Pages: 128
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
EAN: 9781559369503
Categories: • American - African American & Black• Women Authors

About the Author

In 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog. Her other plays include Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), 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. Ms. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and Master Writer Chair at The Public Theater. In 2018, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama.

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What people are saying

Carol Jago

@CarolJago

2 years

Reading and Literature Project, UCLA. Past president, National Council of Teachers of English, ILA board member.

Suzan-Lori Parks' play White Noise is a gut punch. Haunting and important writing. https://t.co/lNAhbTx3qQ

Supporting writers with the Whiting Award, Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Literary Magazine Prizes

"A searing play about the enduring effect of slavery in America. It is as if Suzan-Lori Parks scalds and skins the body politic in one fell swoop." @JohnStoltenberg in @DCMTheaterArts writes a rave review of White Noise by Whiting Award winner Parks. https://t.co/z4c3J415as https://t.co/W9t7kHpisT

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Forty days a slave: Suzan-Lori Parks on her incendiary new play White Noise https://t.co/D7aF381Wfh

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Praise for this book

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"

No work produced by an English-language dramatist of our time surpasses Suzan-Lori Parks for depth, complexity, poetry, originality, insight, and stunning dramatic power.-- "Tony Kushner"

Parks's dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous.-- "Time magazine"

What people are saying

Carol Jago

@CarolJago

2 years

Reading and Literature Project, UCLA. Past president, National Council of Teachers of English, ILA board member.

Suzan-Lori Parks' play White Noise is a gut punch. Haunting and important writing. https://t.co/lNAhbTx3qQ

Supporting writers with the Whiting Award, Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Literary Magazine Prizes

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