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A stunning collection of plays from a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright that captures the societal rupture of the early days of COVID-19.On March 13, 2020, as theaters shut their doors and the world went into lockdown, Suzan-Lori Parks picked up her pen and set out to write a play every day. What emerged is a breathtaking chronicle of our collective experience throughout the troubling days and nights that followed. Parks’s groundbreaking new work bears witness to what we’ve experienced and offers inspiration as we look ahead.
About the author
Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most acclaimed playwrights in the American theater. She is the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for her 2002 play
Topdog/Underdog. James Baldwin, Parks’s mentor, declared her to be “an astonishing and beautiful creature who may become one of the most valuable artists of our time.”
Her other plays include
Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 and 3),
In the Blood,
Venus,
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World,
Fucking A,
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, and
The America Play. In 2007, her
365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and Master Writer Chair at The Public Theater. In 2018, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama.
Summary
A stunning collection of plays from Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright Suzan-Lori Parks that captures the societal rupture of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On March 13, 2020, as theaters shut their doors and the world
went into lockdown, Suzan-Lori Parks picked up her pen and set out to write a
play every day. What emerged is a breathtaking chronicle of our collective
experience throughout the troubling days and nights that followed. Parks’s
groundbreaking new work bears witness to what we’ve experienced and offers
inspiration as we look ahead.
