Plays for the Plague Year

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 so many of us went into lockdown, Suzan-Lori Parkspicked up her pen and set out to write a play every day. What emerged is a breathtaking chronicle of our collective experience throughout the troubling days and nights that followed.

Plays for the Plague Year isat once a personal story of one family''s daily lives, as well as a sweeping account of all we faced as a city, a nation, and a global community.Parks'' groundbreaking new work is brimming with humanity, bears witnessto what we’ve experienced, and offers inspiration as we look ahead.