Suzan-Lori Parks in Person Interviews and Commentaries

Table of Contents

Introduction

Theater’s Vibrant New Voice (1992)

Is Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks the Voice of the Future? (1993)

Suzan-Lori Parks (1994)

Alien Nation (1994)

Making History (1996)

For Posterior’s Sake (1996)

Adrienne Kennedy (1996)

Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (1996)

Love and War Seen in Black and White (1997)

Suzan-Lori Parks (1999)

An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks at Cal Arts (2000)

A Better Mirror (2000)

Mythology, History, Family, Performance (2001)

A Moment with…Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright (2003)

Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks and Bonnie Metzgar (2006)

It’s an Oberammergau Thing (2007)

An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (2010)

Conversation with Suzan-Lori Parks (2011)

Remarks on Parks I (2004)

Remarks on Parks II (2004)

The Birth of The Death of the Last Black Man: Recollections of the First Staging (2013)

An Interview with Liz Diamond (2013)

Bonnie Metzgar on Suzan-Lori Parks (2013)

Biography

Philip C. Kolin is the University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at The University of Southern Mississippi. He has published more than 40 books and 200 articles and is the editor of the Southern Quarterly.

Harvey Young is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University. His books include Theatre & Race (2013) and Embodying Black Experience (2010).

'Will definitely fill a wide and gaping lacuna in this field of theatre scholarship.' - Dr Alison Forsythe, University of Aberystwyth, UK

'This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in American Drama.' - Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College, UK

'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.' -  Deborah Thompson, Colorado State University, Modern Drama

'Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews and Commentaries 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.' - Jaye Austin Williams, California State University, Long Beach, Text & Presentation

'In total, Suzan-Lori Parks in Person is an engaging work that offers insights into the playwright's mind and work, from her undergraduate thesis to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog and her international project 365 Days/365Plays. Kolin and Young provide texts that explore not only how she works but also how she develops seeds of ideas into fully realized productions.' - Valerie M. Joyce, Villanova University, Comparative Drama