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The America Play and other works

Author: Suzan-Lori Parks  

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A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.

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A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.

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"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

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Critic Reviews

“'A dense yet haunting personal vision. Surrealistic sideshow, troubled dream, poetic riff on black identity'”

New York Times

'Suzan-Lori Parks may be the imaginative wake-up call American drama desperately needs'

Boston Phoenix

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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.

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"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

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Product Details

Publisher
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Published
15th December 1994
Pages
205
ISBN
9781559360920

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