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Suzan-Lori Parks

May 2024

  • The cast vary the voltage … left, Ellena Vincent as Grace with Daniel Francis-Swaby as Buddy in The Book of Grace.

    The Book of Grace review – Suzan-Lori Parks delves into a divided America

    The acting from Ellena Vincent, Peter De Jersey and Daniel Francis-Swaby is riveting but this play gets tied down in gothic horror and psychodrama

February 2023

  • Suzan-Lori Parks and the cast of Plays for the Plague Year

    Suzan Lori-Parks: ‘Grief is an experience that has a lot of opportunity in it’

    The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright discusses working through the pandemic and how to best utilise traumatic experiences

October 2022

  • Corey Hawkins and Yayha Abdul Mateen in Topdog/Underdog.

    Topdog/Underdog review – Corey Hawkins triumphs in Suzan Lori-Parks revival

    The actor makes a searing impact alongside an excellent Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the surreal Pulitzer prize-winning play about two brothers struggling to get by in America

October 2021

  • Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle in Macbeth at the Almeida theatre.

    The week in theatre: Maryland; The Tragedy of Macbeth; White Noise

    Lucy Kirkwood’s raw response to the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard captures a moment of terrible rage
  • Unresolved business … Ken Nwosu as Leo in Suzan-Lori Parks’ White Noise at the Bridge theatre, London.

    White Noise review – an enormous provocation of a play

    In Suzan-Lori Parks’ darkly witty four-hander, a black man persuades a white college buddy to be his slave-master for 40 days
  • ‘I was basically ripping the face off of civilisation’ … Ken Nwosu as Leo and Helena Wilson as Dawn in White Noise.

    Forty days a slave: Suzan-Lori Parks on her incendiary new play White Noise

    In a drama that taps straight into these angry, anguished times, a Black artist responds to a police beating by becoming his white friend’s ‘enslaved person’. Pulitzer-winner Parks explains why she rewrote sections to make it even harder-hitting

March 2019

  • Daveed Diggs in White Noise.

    White Noise review – Suzan-Lori Parks provokes and disturbs

    The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright has created an absurdist, challenging drama about the fallout from a racially motivated attack by police

September 2016

  • Suzan-Lori Parks.

    Suzan-Lori Parks: 'People in America are often encouraged not to think'

    The daughter of a Vietnam vet, Suzan-Lori Parks has now written an epic trilogy set during the American civil war. She talks about the military, Obama-era racism and loving Downton Abbey
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