Plays for the Plague Year

"""An original whose fierce intelligence and fearless approach to craft subvert theat-rical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh."" --August Wilson ""No work produced by an English-language dramatist of our time surpasses Suzan-Lori Parks for depth, complexity, poetry, originality, insight, and stunning dramatic power."" --Tony Kushner ""She occupies pretty hallowed air: She's the one who walks among us . . . She's the reigning empress of the Black and weird in theater, and she really is the most suc-cessful dramatist of the avant-garde working today.""--Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ""Parks's stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous."" --TIME ""She is a genre in and of herself. It is formally really dazzling, in terms of how she structures the play; there is humor underpinned with horror and political satire; there's this real thread of the blues and folkways and things that are just root Black American signifiers; it's musical, it's whimsical, it's playful, and it's dangerous--all of the stuff that's so exciting to see onstage."" --James Ijames ""Her great subject is freedom. It's both what she writes about, and how she writes.""--Oskar Eustis ""There's something very grounding about that peace that she carries. When she walks in the room, she carries the ancestors, the people we're trying to honor, with her. She's a national treasure for us."" --Corey Hawkins"