{"product_id":"suzanlori-parks-in-person-9780415624930","title":"SuzanLori Parks in Person","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuzan-Lori Parks in Person\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaterial from a wide range of sources chronologically charts Parksâs 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. Parksâs engaging voice is brought to the fore, making the book es\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Will definitely fill a wide and gaping lacuna in this field of theatre scholarship.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e- Dr Alison Forsythe, University of Aberystwyth, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in American Drama.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e- Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'This collection will serve as a very helpful co-text for readers of Parks’s notoriously “difficult” plays, as it gives background and context, as well as possible readings of some of the more cryptic lines and figures.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eDeborah Thompson, Colorado State University, Modern Drama\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews and Commentaries\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential addition to dramatic literary scholarship, in that it provides a textured, critical--if penultimate--interactive means through which to meet Parks, as a dramatist, a thinker, and as a person whose work continues to probe human relations historically and presently, thoughtfully and dynamically.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eJaye Austin Williams, California State University, Long Beach, Text \u0026amp; Presentation \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'In total, \u003cem\u003eSuzan-Lori Parks in Person\u003c\/em\u003e is an engaging work that offers insights into the playwright's mind and work, from her undergraduate thesis to her Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eTopdog\/Underdog\u003c\/em\u003e and her international project \u003cem\u003e365 Days\/365Plays\u003c\/em\u003e. Kolin and Young provide texts that explore not only how she works but also how she develops seeds of ideas into fully realized productions.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eValerie M. Joyce, Villanova University, Comparative Drama\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatch Me Work: Reflections on Suzan-Lori Parks and Her Canon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: Interviews \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheater’s Vibrant New Voice (1992)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatti Hartigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks the Voice of the Future? (1993)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErika Munk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzan-Lori Parks (1994)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHan Ong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlien Nation (1994)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichele Pearce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking History (1996)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Sellar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Posterior’s Sake (1996)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUna Chaudhuri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrienne Kennedy (1996)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzan-Lori Parks \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterview with Suzan-Lori Parks (1996)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShelby Jiggetts \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove and War Seen in Black and White (1997)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonni Gordon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzan-Lori Parks (1999)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Savran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks at Cal Arts (2000)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLisa Colletta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Better Mirror (2000)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathy Sova\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMythology, History, Family, Performance (2001)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRick DesRochers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Moment with…Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright (2003)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Marshall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterview with Suzan-Lori Parks and Bonnie Metzgar (2006)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Roach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s an Oberammergau Thing (2007)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin J. Wetmore \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (2010) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShawn-Marie Garrett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversation with Suzan-Lori Parks (2011)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDave Steakley \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II: Commentaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemarks on Parks I (2004)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Kalb, Robert Brustein, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Mark Robinson, Alisa Solomon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemarks on Parks II (2004)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Kalb, Richard Foreman, Liz Diamond, Leah C. Gardiner, Bill Walters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Birth of \u003ci\u003eThe Death of the Last Black Man\u003c\/i\u003e: Recollections of the First Staging (2013)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeth Schachter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Interview with Liz Diamond (2013)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip C. 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