The America Play and Other Works

by Suzan-Lori Parks

Overview

"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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559360920
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	11/01/1994
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

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.

Hometown:

Los Angeles, California

Date of Birth:

May 10, 1963

Place of Birth:

Fort Knox, Kentucky

Education:

B.A., Mt. Holyoke College, 1985

Website:

http://www.suzanloriparks.com/

Editorial Reviews

"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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