Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks

An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights.

'Has the sharp quality of a fable that will never cease to be timely'

* Independent *

'Mischievous, mighty and moving.. a restlessly intelligent, compelling work that expresses, with inspired dramatic invention, the way that the brutal past pervades the present'

* Financial Times *

'Epic in every sense... totally compelling... captures the complexity of a civil war where black Americans found themselves fighting on opposing sides and where, although freedom was the ultimate goal, its achievement was fraught with hazards that continue to this day.'

* Guardian *

'Thrillingly leads the charge for a new kind of "historical" drama'

* Telegraph *

'Ambitious and assured… the writing is poetic and richly textured, full of echoes and asides, moving deftly between registers… Parks is a writer of ambition, skill and soul, repurposing old forms in new ways and engaging with the ripples of history, telling a story that has yet to end'

* The Stage *

'A rich, complicated, unsentimental play with an awful lot to say… fantastically imaginative'

* Time Out *

'Thrilling. A masterpiece'

* New York Magazine *

'One of the top plays of the year... A richly textured mix of Brechtian allegory and Homeric epic, finding new meaning in an essential American tragedy'

* Time *

'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 turning point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens... The wonder of Ms. Parks’s achievement is how smoothly she blends the high and the low, the serious and the humorous, the melodramatic and the grittily realistic... the best new play I’ve seen all year'

* New York Times *

'The best new play of the year... It is bold, hugely entertaining, moving and thrillingly ambitious. Suzan-Lori Parks bids fair to create a sprawling multi-part epic to plant alongside August Wilson’s monumental Century Cycle, one of the great achievements in theater history. Parts 4 through 9 (or more?) can’t come fast enough'

* Huffington Post *

Suzan-Lori Parks is a leading American playwright. Her numerous plays include Father Comes Home From the Wars (2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist), The Book of Grace, Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize), In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (1996 OBIE Award), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 OBIE Award for Best New American Play) and The America Play. Her work on The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess earned the production a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 2012. In 2007 her 365 Plays/365 Days was produced in more than seven hundred theatres worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theatre history.

Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” in 2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781848425507
ISBN 10	1848425503
Title	Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Author	Suzan-Lori Parks
Series	Nhb Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	2016-09-15
Number of pages	160
Prizes	Winner of Edward M Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History 2015
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