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SUZAN-LORI PARKS |
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Nationality: African-American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks |
365 Days/365 Plays Festival | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Dance Group Arts Center, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | New Dance Group Arts Center | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70498 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by Suzan-Lori Parks, additional writing by The Acting Ensemble | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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7 Plays, 7 Days, 7 Ways (Selections from "365 Days/365 Plays") | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Faux-Real Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70499 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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America Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - March, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27004 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | 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 visitors was a man who has now come to call himself The Foundling Father. He was a digger by trade - a grave digger - and he was struck by the size of the Hole and the pageantry of the place. He returns home with his wife, Lury, a woman who keeps secrets for the dead, and together they start a mourning business. Unfortunately, our hero can't get the Great Hole pageantry out of his head; the echoes of history speak to him and call him to greatness. At rise we meet this Foundling Father. He has left his wife and child and gone out west to dig a huge replica of the Great Hole of History. In the hole sits our hero. He is dressed like Abraham Lincoln, complete with beard, wart, frock coat and stove pipe hat. He tells us the story of his own life (in the third person) and tells us that | |||||
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Betting On The Dust Commander | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27005 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | play about circularity, domestic harmony and horse racing | |||||
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Book of Grace, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003 >>> | 17 Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111971 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Suzan-Lori Parks's new play is a family portrait shattered by issues of rage, revenge, power and betrayal. When a young man returns home to South Texas to confront his father, everyday life erupts into a battle for personal survival. At once fiercely intimate and explosive, The Book of Grace weaves the story of three people bound together by love and longing, passion and ambition. | |||||
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Death Of The Last Black Man In The Whole World, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Theatre", New Haven, Summer/Fall, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27006 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | an historical dreamscape of death and non religious resurrection | |||||
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Devotees In The Garden Of Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus in 20/20: Twenty One-Act Plays from the Twenty Year History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays and by TCG in The America Play and Other Works., | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27007 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | As a bride-to-be and her mother watch from atop a hill, two suitors vie in bloody combat for the lady's hand in marriage. Meanwhile, the young lady prepares her heart and trousseau for the victor--until news from her matchmaker reveals just how deadening romantic illusions can be. This tragicomedy of courtly ritual is an Actors Theatre commission | |||||
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Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 8 & 9) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98822 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Suzan-Lori Parks takes the stage to play the role of our guide leading through a multimedia epic tale about slavery, war, freedom, and the difficulty of family ties. Part I tells the story of Penny, a slave, awaiting her husband's return from the Civil War while resisting her own desire to flee with a band of runaway slaves. Parts 8 & 9, set in present day, follow a Poet-General struggling with the reality of his impending death while he plans his annual celebration for the army troops | |||||
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Fucking A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Red Letter Plays, TCG, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38980 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | "Fucking A" should be without the comma as the play is "inspired" by Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter | |||||
Synopsis: | Hester has the guilt-ridden job in a small rather post-apocalyptic country as the only abortionist. Her profession as "baby killer" is so reviled, that she doesn't even admit what she does when writing her son in prison | |||||
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Greeks | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27008 | |||
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Imperceptible Mutabilities In The Third Kingdom | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The American Play and other works", Theatre Communications Group, USA, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27009 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | African-American history in the shadow of the photographic image | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In the Blood | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - March, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27010 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from Hawthorne's tale, The Scarlet Letter | |||||
Synopsis: | In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and write, but the letter "A" is, so far, the only letter she knows. Her five kids are named Jabber, Bully, Trouble, Beauty and Baby, and the characters are played by adult actors who double as five other people in Hester's life: her ex-boyfriend, her social worker, her doctor, her best friend and her minister. While Hester's kids fill her life with joy-lovingly comical moments amid the harsh world of poverty-the adults with whom she comes into contact only hold her back. Nothing can stop the play's tragic end. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Neo-Futurists Meet Susan Lori Parks: NEO-FUTURISTIC REALIZATION OF 365 DAYS/365 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Makor, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | New York Neo-Futurists | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71856 | |||
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Pickling | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27011 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | a woman remembers the past through the things she has saved: lots of bric-a-brac in formaldehyde | |||||
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Sinner's Place, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Amherst, Massachusetts | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27012 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Topdog/Underdog | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27013 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks's 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. | |||||
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Venus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #27014 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | flexible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In 1810, The Venus Hottentot (as she is dubbed)-a young black woman with an enormous posterior-is lured away from her menial job in South Africa to tour the world and make lots of money. Once in England, however, she is sold to a freak show and becomes a star. She shows off her attribute, bringing in crowds and raking in money for the side show owners. Quickly becoming adept at showing herself, and figuring out what the people want, she even tries to break out on her own, but can't quite master that in those social times. Eventually, she is procured by a white doctor who is more than fascinated with her. He falls in love with her and keeps her as his mistress until he is in danger of losing his medical reputation and social standing. Venus, who journeyed to Europe with high hopes, at the end of her short life, was dissected by the man she loved. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Watch Me Work | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Theater | 19 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126205 | |||
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Genre: | performance piece 75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Watch Me Work is a performance piece, a meditation on the artistic process and an actual work session, in which Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks works on her newest writing project in the main lobby of The Public. The audience is invited to come and watch her work and/or to share the space and get some of their own writing work done. During the last fifteen minutes of the performance she will answer any questions the audience might have regarding their own work and their own creative process. | |||||
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