Plays for the Plague Year
Plays for the Plague Year
Plays for the Plague Year
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Description
Description
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 so many of us 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.
Plays for the Plague Year is
at once a personal story of one family's daily lives, as well as a
sweeping account of all we faced as a city, a nation, and a global
community.
Parks' groundbreaking new work is brimming with humanity, bears witness
to what we've experienced, and offers inspiration as we look ahead.
About the Author
About the Author
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"An original whose fierce intelligence and fearless approach to craft subvert theat-rical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh." --August Wilson
"No work produced by an English-language dramatist of our time surpasses Suzan-Lori Parks for depth, complexity, poetry, originality, insight, and stunning dramatic power." --Tony Kushner
"She occupies pretty hallowed air: She's the one who walks among us . . . She's the reigning empress of the Black and weird in theater, and she really is the most suc-cessful dramatist of the avant-garde working today."--Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
"Parks's stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous." --TIME
"She is a genre in and of herself. It is formally really dazzling, in terms of how she structures the play; there is humor underpinned with horror and political satire; there's this real thread of the blues and folkways and things that are just root Black American signifiers; it's musical, it's whimsical, it's playful, and it's dangerous--all of the stuff that's so exciting to see onstage." --James Ijames
"Her great subject is freedom. It's both what she writes about, and how she writes."--Oskar Eustis
"There's something very grounding about that peace that she carries. When she walks in the room, she carries the ancestors, the people we're trying to honor, with her. She's a national treasure for us." --Corey Hawkins
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