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Topdog/Underdog
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
149 kr
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A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Suzan-Lori Parks' play Topdog/Underdog tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.Topdog/Underdog was first performed at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York, in 2001. Its UK premiere was at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2003.
Getting Mother’s Body
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
159 kr
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The debut novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is a gutsy, funny, tragic and completely original work for fans of William Faulkner and Alice Walker.In the 1950s, in a small southern town in the US, the Beedes are the lowest of the low. Always struggling, they remain shackled by poverty and their own lack of ambition. Everyone, but sixteen-year-old Billie Beede.Billy Beede has big ideas about her life. She's had the Beede misfortune to get pregnant by an itinerant coffin salesman. And when he proves to have a wife and seven kids in another town, she determines to try her luck elsewhere. The answer seems to be in the hem of her mother's dress, her mother who died ten years ago. The rumour is that Willa Mae – a Billie Holiday look-alike – was the only Beede who made good, and was buried with a pearl necklace and a diamond ring sewn into the hem of her dress.Billie – and all her relatives – aim to get their hands on this treasure and make something of themselves. What follows is a mad road trip that evokes shades of Faulkner – in its potent earthiness – but also has the approachability and warmth of novels like The Colour Purple. This is a fantastic debut novel from an accomplished and well-loved American playwright.
Getting Mother’s Body
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
57 kr
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The debut novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is a gutsy, funny, tragic and completely original work for fans of William Faulkner and Alice Walker.In the 1950s, in a small southern town in the US, the Beedes are the lowest of the low. Always struggling, they remain shackled by poverty and their own lack of ambition. Everyone, but sixteen-year-old Billie Beede.Billy Beede has big ideas about her life. She's had the Beede misfortune to get pregnant by an itinerant coffin salesman. And when he proves to have a wife and seven kids in another town, she determines to try her luck elsewhere. The answer seems to be in the hem of her mother's dress, her mother who died ten years ago. The rumour is that Willa Mae – a Billie Holiday look-alike – was the only Beede who made good, and was buried with a pearl necklace and a diamond ring sewn into the hem of her dress.Billie – and all her relatives – aim to get their hands on this treasure and make something of themselves. What follows is a mad road trip that evokes shades of Faulkner – in its potent earthiness – but also has the approachability and warmth of novels like The Colour Purple. This is a fantastic debut novel from an accomplished and well-loved American playwright.
Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3
AvSuzan-Lori, Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
290 kr
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Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award winner Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) delivers the stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey set over the course of the Civil War.Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy Hero a slave must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be yet another empty promise. As his decision brings him face-to-face with a nation at war with itself the loved ones Hero left behind debate whether to
Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World Aka the Negro Book of the Dead
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
306 kr
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White Noise
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
274 kr
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Long-time friends and lovers Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn are educated, progressive, cosmopolitan and woke. But when a racially motivated incident with the cops leaves Leo shaken, he decides extreme measures must be taken for self-preservation.
Fucking A
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
274 kr
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Fucking A is an otherworldly tale involving a noble mother her wayward son and others. Hester Smith the revered and reviled local abortionist hatches a plan to buy her jailed son's freedom-and nothing will deter Hester from her quest. In this violent and wild-eyed blend of story and song which harkens to Brechtian and Jacobean structure Hester's branded letter A becomes a provocative emblem of vengeance violence and sacrifice."Critics' Pick! Timeless and enduringly relevant. As harrowing as it is witty!" - Ben Brantley The New York Times"Four stars! Like Hester's bloodily branded A the play leaves an indelible mark." - Raven Snook Time Out New York"A fiery raw-throated shout in the face of hypocrisy privilege and injustice." - Sara Holdren New York Magazine"An expressionistic and politically charged exploration of class family and violence studded with jarring bursts of humor and song." - Raven Snook Time Out New York
365 Days/365 Plays
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
370 kr
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Getting Mother's Body
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
352 kr
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Topdog/Underdog
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
299 kr
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America Play and other works
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
292 kr
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Red Letter Plays
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
288 kr
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Topdog/Underdog
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
279 kr
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365 Days/365 Plays
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
282 kr
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Book of Grace
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
244 kr
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Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
262 kr
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100 Plays for the First Hundred Days
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
234 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
In reaction to the extraordinary events of the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has created a unique and personal response to one of the most tumultuous times in our recent historya play diary for each day of the presidency, to capture and explore the events as they unfolded. Known for her distinctive lyrical dialogue and powerful sociopolitical themes, Parkss 100 Plays for the First Hundred Days is the powerful and provocative everymans guide to the Trumpian universe of uncertainty, confusion, and chaos.
Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition)
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2001
238 kr
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A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of numerous plays, including In the Blood and Venus. She is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
365 Days / 365 Plays
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2006
223 kr
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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).
Book of Grace
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
223 kr
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"[Suzan-Lori Parks''] dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous."—Time

"An original whose fierce intelligence and fearless approach to craft subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh."—August Wilson

Named one of the "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave" by Time magazine, Suzan-Lori Parks is a truly original voice of the American theater. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur "Genius" Award, Parks is renowned for her groundbreaking language, theatricality, and an aesthetic that continues to evolve in unexpected ways. Her first full-length play since her award-winning Topdog/Underdog, The Book of Grace is a scorching three-person drama in which a young man returns home to south Texas to confront his father, unearthing deep-seated passions and ambition. The play premiered in spring 2010 at the Public Theater, where Parks is in the midst of a three-year residency as the first recipient of the theater''s master writer chair.

Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright, screenwriter, songwriter, and novelist. Her plays include Topdog/Underdog (winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize), In the Blood (a 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (OBIE Award winner) and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play).
America Play and Other Works
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
298 kr
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"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way.... She''s passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--VogueA collection of plays and essays by one of America''s premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on Dust Commander, Pickling, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, and The America Play.
Red Letter Plays
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2012
298 kr
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"In the Blood is an extraordinary new play…It is truly harrowing…we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with "a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.’"—Margo Jefferson, The New York TimesThe playwright who "has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way [John Heilpern, New York Observer and Vogue]," has written two haunting riffs on Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter: In the Blood and Fucking A.Hester La Negrita of In the Blood is an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children—"my treasures, my five joys"—who practices writing the alphabet to help herself "one day get a leg up. The letter A is as far as she gets. Hester Smith of Fucking A works the only job available—abortionist to the lower class, in order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son. Her branded A bleeds afresh every time a patient comes to see her.These are two mature, beautifully crafted, inventive and poetic plays by one of the most unique voices writing for the stage today.Suzan Lori-Parks is also the author of The America Play and Other Works and Venus, both published by TCG. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Venus
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2012
253 kr
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Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death.
Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
253 kr
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"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—The New York Times
"Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."—New York
Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present.
Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, 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. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.
100 Plays for the First Hundred Days
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
134 kr
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In reaction to the extraordinary events of the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has created a unique and personal response to one of the most tumultuous times in our recent history—a play diary for each day of the presidency, to capture and explore the events as they unfolded. Known for her distinctive lyrical dialogue and powerful sociopolitical themes, Parks’s 100 Plays for the First Hundred Days is the powerful and provocative everyman’s guide to the Trumpian universe of uncertainty, confusion, and chaos.
Getting Mother's Body
A Novel
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2003
80 kr
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Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae’s burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket.As Willa Mae’s only daughter, Billy is heiress to her mother’s substantial but unconfirmed fortune—a cache of jewels that Willa Mae’s lover, Dill Smiles, is said to have buried with her. Dirt poor, living in a trailer with her Aunt June and Uncle Roosevelt behind a gas station in a tumbleweedy Texas town, and pregnant with an illegitimate child, Billy knows that treasure could mean salvation. So she steals Dill’s pickup truck and, with her aunt and uncle in tow, heads for Arizona with Dill in hot pursuit. While everyone agrees it’s only polite to speak of getting mother’s body and moving her to a proper resting place, it’s well understood that digging up Willa Mae’s diamonds and pearls will make the whole trip a lot more worthwhile.The enormously accomplished fiction debut from Suzan-Lori Parks, the 2002 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Getting Mother’s Body takes its place in the company of the classic works of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker. But when it comes to an ingenious, uproarious knack for depicting the trifling, hard-luck, down-and-out souls who need a little singing and laughing and lying and praying to get through the day, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one.From the Hardcover edition.
Plays for the Plague Year
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
E-bok
Engelska, 2024
259 kr
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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.
Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays
Volume Two
AvAnn Marie Healy,Nick Jonesm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
376 kr
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The second volume in this series brings together some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights. Each play is introduced by critically acclaimed writers themselves.THE EDGE OF OUR BODIES by Adam Rapp, Introduced by AM Homes, follows a teenage girl Bernadette who has to grow up quickly when she discovers she is pregnant. THE COWARD by Nick Jones, introduced by Marsha Norman, is an absurdist comedy set in 18th century England. Lucidus initiates a pistol duel, but when he finds he'll have to fight the son of the man he challenged, he doesn't want to go through with it. His plot to avoid the duel creates more trouble. THE BOOK OF GRACE by Suzan-Lori Parks, introduced by Oskar Eustis, portrays a dysfunctional American family, where anger and mistrust are symptoms of historical abuse. WHAT ONCE WE FELT by Ann Marie Healy, introduced by Paula Vogel, is set in a mysterious parallel universe, where Macy is the last ever author to be published in print, the system has an underclass named the Tradepack, and a woman can only have a baby if she possesses the right kind of 'scan card'.
Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays
Volume Two
AvAdam Rapp,Suzan-Lori Parksm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
404 kr
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The second volume in this series brings together some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights. Each play is introduced by critically acclaimed writers themselves.THE EDGE OF OUR BODIES by Adam Rapp, Introduced by AM Homes, follows a teenage girl Bernadette who has to grow up quickly when she discovers she is pregnant. THE COWARD by Nick Jones, introduced by Marsha Norman, is an absurdist comedy set in 18th century England. Lucidus initiates a pistol duel, but when he finds he''ll have to fight the son of the man he challenged, he doesn''t want to go through with it. His plot to avoid the duel creates more trouble. THE BOOK OF GRACE by Suzan-Lori Parks, introduced by Oskar Eustis, portrays a dysfunctional American family, where anger and mistrust are symptoms of historical abuse. WHAT ONCE WE FELT by Ann Marie Healy, introduced by Paula Vogel, is set in a mysterious parallel universe, where Macy is the last ever author to be published in print, the system has an underclass named the Tradepack, and a woman can only have a baby if she possesses the right kind of ''scan card''.
White Noise
AvSuzan-Lori Parks
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
149 kr
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Thirty-somethings Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn have been inseparable since college. Making their way together in the big city, they are liberal, open-minded and socially aware.As best friends and lovers, confident in their 'woke-ness', their connection with each other is stronger than anything else – until Leo is assaulted by the police in a racially motivated incident. Shaken to the core, he brings to the group an extreme proposition...Suzan-Lori Parks' play White Noise takes an unflinching look at race in the twenty-first century from both a black and white perspective. It was first performed at The Public Theater, New York, in March 2019, directed by Oskar Eustis, and had its European premiere at the Bridge Theatre, London, in October 2021, directed by Polly Findlay.

Suzan-Lori Parks – författare

Topdog/Underdog

Getting Mother’s Body

Getting Mother’s Body

Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3

Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World Aka the Negro Book of the Dead

White Noise

Fucking A

365 Days/365 Plays

Getting Mother's Body

Topdog/Underdog

America Play and other works

Red Letter Plays

Topdog/Underdog

365 Days/365 Plays

Book of Grace

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

100 Plays for the First Hundred Days

Topdog/Underdog (TCG Edition)

365 Days / 365 Plays

Book of Grace

America Play and Other Works

Red Letter Plays

Venus

Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

100 Plays for the First Hundred Days

Getting Mother's Body

Plays for the Plague Year

Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays

Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays

White Noise