Plays for the Plague Year - Paperback

by Suzan-Lori Parks (Author)

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 lock-down, 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 through-out 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.

Author Biography

In 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog. Her other plays include Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 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. Ms. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and Master Writer Chair at The Public Theater. In 2018, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama.