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Thirty-somethings Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn have been inseparable
since college. Making their way together in the big city, they are
liberal, open-minded and socially aware. As best friends and
lovers, confident in their 'woke-ness', their connection with each
other is stronger than anything else - until Leo is assaulted by
the police in a racially motivated incident. Shaken to the core, he
brings to the group an extreme proposition... Suzan-Lori Parks'
play White Noise takes an unflinching look at race in the
twenty-first century from both a black and white perspective. It
was first performed at The Public Theater, New York, in March 2019,
directed by Oskar Eustis, and had its European premiere at the
Bridge Theatre, London, in October 2021, directed by Polly Findlay.
The debut novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori
Parks is a gutsy, funny, tragic and completely original work for
fans of William Faulkner and Alice Walker. In the 1950s, in a small
southern town in the US, the Beedes are the lowest of the low.
Always struggling, they remain shackled by poverty and their own
lack of ambition. Everyone, but sixteen-year-old Billie Beede.
Billy Beede has big ideas about her life. She's had the Beede
misfortune to get pregnant by an itinerant coffin salesman. And
when he proves to have a wife and seven kids in another town, she
determines to try her luck elsewhere. The answer seems to be in the
hem of her mother's dress, her mother who died ten years ago. The
rumour is that Willa Mae - a Billie Holiday look-alike - was the
only Beede who made good, and was buried with a pearl necklace and
a diamond ring sewn into the hem of her dress. Billie - and all her
relatives - aim to get their hands on this treasure and make
something of themselves. What follows is a mad road trip that
evokes shades of Faulkner - in its potent earthiness - but also has
the approachability and warmth of novels like The Colour Purple.
This is a fantastic debut novel from an accomplished and well-loved
American playwright.
An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one
of America's leading playwrights. America, 1862, during the Civil
War. Hero, a slave, is promised his freedom if he joins his master
in the ranks of the Confederacy against the Union. In a nation at
war with itself, he must fight against those striving to abolish
slavery. The family he leaves behind debates whether to escape or
await his return, and they fear that, for Hero, freedom is an empty
promise that may come at a great cost. Suzan-Lori Parks' Father
Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) received its UK
premiere in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court
Theatre, London, in 2016, directed by Jo Bonney. The trilogy
premiered at The Public Theater, New York, in 2014, was a finalist
for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and won the Edward M Kennedy
Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity. The
play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names
were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling
rivalry. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront
the reality of their future.
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, foretelling a lifetime of
sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers
are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including "In
the Blood" and "Venus." She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater
Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California
Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
"In this exciting new anthology, Wesley Brown and Aimee K. Michel
bring together six wonderfully teachable plays by some of the
greatest American women dramatists of the past fifty years--
Ntozake Shange, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Beth
Henley, and Susan Yankowitz. The editors provide a helpful
Introduction to the last 100 years of theatrical activity, from
suffrage and anti-lynching plays, through the explosive 1960s, to
recent Broadway triumphs, highlighting women's struggle-a struggle
that continues--to put their vision and voices on the American
stage." Elin Diamond, Rutgers University, USA This volume
celebrates the iconoclastic power of six American women playwrights
who pushed the boundaries of the form outside the box of
conventional drama. Each play is accompanied by a short
introduction providing the biographical background of the
playwright as well as discussing the dramatic style of her writing,
the extent to which her work is informed by major playwrights of
the period, and how the specific work illustrates the overarching
themes of her body of work. The plays included are: Gun by Susan
Yankowitz Spell #7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for
technologically stressed third world people by Ntozake Shange The
Jacksonian by Beth Henley The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel In the
Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
""In the Blood" is an extraordinary new play...It is truly
harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play
strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet
letter struck him, with "a sensation not altogether physical yet
almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red
cloth but of red-hot iron.'"--Margo Jefferson, "The New York Times"
The playwright who "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
John Heilpern, "New York Observer" and "Vogue"]," has written two
haunting riffs on Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter: In the Blood"
and "Fucking A."
Hester La Negrita of "In the Blood" is an unapologetic mother of
five illegitimate children--"my treasures, my five joys"--who
practices writing the alphabet to help herself "one day get a leg
up. The letter A is as far as she gets. Hester Smith of "Fucking A"
works the only job available--abortionist to the lower class, in
order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son. Her
branded A bleeds afresh every time a patient comes to see her.
These are two mature, beautifully crafted, inventive and poetic
plays by one of the most unique voices writing for the stage today.
Suzan Lori-Parks is also the author of "The America Play and Other
Works" and "Venus," both published by TCG. She lives in Brooklyn,
New York.
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The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970 - 2020 - Gun, Spell #7, The Jacksonian, The Baltimore Waltz, In the Blood, Intimate Apparel (Hardcover)
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"In this exciting new anthology, Wesley Brown and Aimee K. Michel
bring together six wonderfully teachable plays by some of the
greatest American women dramatists of the past fifty years--
Ntozake Shange, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Beth
Henley, and Susan Yankowitz. The editors provide a helpful
Introduction to the last 100 years of theatrical activity, from
suffrage and anti-lynching plays, through the explosive 1960s, to
recent Broadway triumphs, highlighting women's struggle-a struggle
that continues--to put their vision and voices on the American
stage." Elin Diamond, Rutgers University, USA This volume
celebrates the iconoclastic power of six American women playwrights
who pushed the boundaries of the form outside the box of
conventional drama. Each play is accompanied by a short
introduction providing the biographical background of the
playwright as well as discussing the dramatic style of her writing,
the extent to which her work is informed by major playwrights of
the period, and how the specific work illustrates the overarching
themes of her body of work. The plays included are: Gun by Susan
Yankowitz Spell #7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for
technologically stressed third world people by Ntozake Shange The
Jacksonian by Beth Henley The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel In the
Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
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Parks' latest and most controversial work.
"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 second volume in this series brings together some of the best
new writing from contemporary American playwrights. Each play is
introduced by critically acclaimed writers themselves. THE EDGE OF
OUR BODIES by Adam Rapp, Introduced by AM Homes, follows a teenage
girl Bernadette who has to grow up quickly when she discovers she
is pregnant. THE COWARD by Nick Jones, introduced by Marsha Norman,
is an absurdist comedy set in 18th century England. Lucidus
initiates a pistol duel, but when he finds he'll have to fight the
son of the man he challenged, he doesn't want to go through with
it. His plot to avoid the duel creates more trouble. THE BOOK OF
GRACE by Suzan-Lori Parks, introduced by Oskar Eustis, portrays a
dysfunctional American family, where anger and mistrust are
symptoms of historical abuse. WHAT ONCE WE FELT by Ann Marie Healy,
introduced by Paula Vogel, is set in a mysterious parallel
universe, where Macy is the last ever author to be published in
print, the system has an underclass named the Tradepack, and a
woman can only have a baby if she possesses the right kind of 'scan
card'.
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