ABSTRACT
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom premiered in September 1989 under the direction of Liz Diamond at the Brooklyn Arts Council (BACA) Downtown Theatre in front of approximately 75 people. Diamond also later collaborated with Parks on The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1992) and The America Play (1994). She was introduced to Parks’s work by the New York experimental theatre’s designated mentor, the playwright Mac Wellman. Parks and Diamond met in 1988 at the Lincoln Centre café, hit it off, and agreed that they should work together on the premiere of Imperceptible Mutabilities.
