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When her second play, Betting on the Dust Commander, first premiered, it ran for three nights in a bar in Manhattan's Lower East Side called Gas Station.[22] It is a short, one-act play set in Kentucky, centering around the lives of a couple, Mare and Lucius, who have been married for 110 years.
Nov 25, 2022 · And names you might not – Dr. Li Wenliang, who warned other doctors about early infections in Wuhan, or Parks' own ex-husband, the blues musician Paul Oscher who died in April 2021.
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May 18, 2023 · Parks remembers the exact date she began writing the show: January 6, 1999, which she still calls "Topdog Day" each year. She shared her proposed premise with a friend, who immediately responded, "Go home and write it." So right then, she did. "It was as if someone was pouring silver liquid down the back of my head," Parks said.
Oct 22, 2006 · Parks with her husband, Paul Oscher, at their home in Venice, California. Photograph by Martin Schoeller
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Apr 15, 2024 · HISTORY. This Play Within a Play Confronts the Power Dynamic Between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. In “Sally & Tom,” Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks continues her investigation of...
Apr 7, 1994 · The Foundling Father's wife Lucy, and his son, Brazil, spend their time digging in the hole that the deceased husband had begun, intending to replicate the amusement park, The Great Hole of...
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Feb 1, 2019 · On a 2017 podcast with Michael Kantor, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks recalled her childhood and defining moments that contributed to her building selfhood. “We were often the only black people that some people had ever seen live,” she said about traveling with her family as a child.
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