ABSTRACT

This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory.

Suzan-Lori Parks in Person contains 18 interviews, some previously untranscribed or specially undertaken for this book, plus commentaries on her work by major directors and critics, including Liz Diamond, Richard Foreman, Bonnie Metzgar and Beth Schachter. These contributions combine to honor the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama, and explore her ideas about theater, history, race, and gender.

Material from a wide range of sources chronologically charts Parks’s career from the 1990s to the present. This is a major collection with immediate relevance to students of American/African-American theater, literature and culture. Parks’s engaging voice is brought to the fore, making the book essential for undergraduates as well as scholars.

The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

chapter |25 pages

“Watch Me Work”

Reflections on Suzan-Lori Parks and Her Canon
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part I|122 pages

Interviews

chapter 1|4 pages

Theater's Vibrant New Voice

Suzan-Lori Parks Puts Dreams into Words—and Invents a New Language for the Stage
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chapter 2|4 pages

The Next Stage

Is Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks the Voice of the Future?
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chapter 3|9 pages

Suzan-Lori Parks

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chapter 4|3 pages

Alien Nation

An Interview with the Playwright
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chapter 5|6 pages

Making History

Suzan-Lori Parks: The Shape of the Past
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chapter 6|3 pages

For Posterior's Sake

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chapter 7|8 pages

Adrienne Kennedy

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chapter 8|10 pages

Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks

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chapter 10|21 pages

Suzan-Lori Parks

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chapter 11|3 pages

A Better Mirror

An Interview with the Playwright
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chapter 16|16 pages

It's an Oberammergau Thing

An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks
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part II|71 pages

Commentaries

chapter 19|24 pages

Remarks on Parks I

A Hunter College Symposium On the Work of Suzan-Lori Parks
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chapter 20|18 pages

Remarks On Parks II

A Hunter College Symposium On the Work of Suzan-Lori Parks
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chapter 21|8 pages

The Birth of The Death of the Last Black Man

Recollections of the First Staging
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chapter 23|7 pages

Bonnie Metzgar On Suzan-Lori Parks

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