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Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)
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November 29, 2006

“Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.”—Tony Kushner
 
“The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the ‘weather.’ It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and strange process of a writing life.”—Suzan-Lori Parks
 
On November 13, 2002, the incomparable Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play every day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The result is an extraordinary testament to artistic commitment. This collection of 365 impeccably crafted pieces, each with its own distinctive characters and dramatic power, is a complete work by an artist responding to her world, each and every day. Parks is one of the American theater’s most wily and innovative writers, and her “stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous” (TIME).

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About the Author

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.

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  • Paperback: 426 pages
  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group; First Edition edition (November 29, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1559362863
  • ISBN-13: 978-1559362863
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #187,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Uneven Stroll Through the Parks, February 2, 2007
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Listen up: Brilliant writer -- Mount Holyoke, MacArthur genius grant, Pulitzer Prize, she's da bomb, all right? -- lives with her cats and her blues-musician husband in Venice (that's L.A.'s Venice), wakes up on Nov. 13, 2002, decides it'd be a good idea to write a play every day for a year (no exceptions), and she's honing her craft but this is also the run-up to the war in Iraq so of course a lot of her one-page sketches bash Bush real; husband says "cool," next thing you know there are theaters doing weeks and months of her 365-play cycle all over the country. (Got it goin' on right now in Seattle.) But in the meantime, you can enjoy this book -- which has its bland patches, sure (I sympathize with whoever has to perform the September plays) -- but Suzan-Lori Parks didn't learn from James Baldwin how to write drama like *Topdog/Underdog* for nothin'. At their best, Parks' playlets are miniature lessons in how to write for the stage.

Parks has her fixations -- Abraham Lincoln (he lives to age 89); arms that are frozen before the knife can kill; racial injustice; literalized metaphors (an actual Window of Opportunity that actually closes shut); stage directions that can never be enacted; playing possum; plutocracy ("The Presidents Day Sale"); warmonger dictators -- but it's interesting to watch her ring her themes' changes.

Many plays are startling and compact, with topics like watching over a sleeping stranger as an image of compassion ("The 1st Constant"); spoofing Neil Simon ("Barefoot and Pregnant in the Park"); Bush murdering his own soldier and calling it "poignant" ("House to House"); mothers protecting and relinquishing their children ("Behind the Veil of the Goddess"); breaking the cycle of poverty and crime ("My Father Was a Famous Mother"); women and men always failing to get along ("Epic Bio-Pic," "Vase" and "Bear"); representing despair and its cure metaphorically ("Plenty"); and ridiculing sectarian war ("Everybody's Got an Aunt Jemimah").

Some plays overlap; some plays interrupt others; and some of Suzan-Lori Parks' plays stretch people's minds out to infinity.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 365 days / 365 plays, December 24, 2006
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this is an innovative, intimate, lumen to a writers personal daily offering. Suzan-lori Parks has written a play a day for a year totaling over 365 works ( on some days she wrote more then one. Each play or playlet is of gem quality and despite their brief duration some less than a page, are nevertheless complete works. it is the distilled, no frills quality of these plays that bring the nectar sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter. well worth reading or performing as can be attested by the numerous actors and production companies now involved with the national premier of these plays. Over seven hundred theatre companies in 15 different cities have come on board for the production. A great addition to a library of classic, enduring work
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5.0 out of 5 stars 365 Reasons, January 29, 2012
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I was fortunate to be part of the festival with my high school students and now own a signed copy after meeting Suzan-Lori at the opening night of the San Francisco festival. Our production was dramaturged by my students, who created a thematic sense of seven of the gems in this playbook, and performed brilliantly (still one of my crowning glories). She is a down to earth person and a talented writer with an important voice. These are wonderfully short pieces that have also been effective in my acting classroom.
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