Praise for playwright Suzan-Lori Parks:
"Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists
America has produced."
---Tony Kushner
" Parks's] stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic
images transform her work into something haunting and
marvelous."
---"Time"
Suzan-Lori Parks is one of America's most distinctive
playwrights. In 2007 her creation "365 Plays/365 Days" was produced
in more than seven hundred theaters around the world. She has been
named one of "Time" magazine's "100 Innovators for the Next New
Wave" and is a recipient of the MacArthur Award. A former student
of James Baldwin, Parks is a prolific author with novels,
screenplays, and even a musical to her credit, but she is best
known for her plays. Works such as "Topdog/Underdog, In the Blood,
Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World,
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, " and "The America
Play" have been widely produced and have won the highest honors
(including the Pulitzer Prize and two Obies), but to date, books on
Parks have been scarce.
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.
Deborah R. Geis is Associate Professor of English at DePauw
University. Her books include "Postmodern Theatric(k)s: Monologue
in Contemporary American Drama; Approaching the Millennium: Essays
on" Angels in America (coedited with Steven F. Kruger); and
"Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's "Survivor's Tale"
of the Holocaust."
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