Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama The finest work yet from this gifted writer.-- The New York Times 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.
Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater..
In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide.
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 .
Suzan-lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002.
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.
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.
Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama The finest work yet from this gifted writer.-- The New York Times 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
