Theatre includes Grayson Perry’s A Show for Normal People A Number at The Bridge Rutherford and Son, Beginning (also West End), As You Like It, Treasure Island, Antigone, Protest Song and Double Feature at the National Theatre Gefährten ( War Horse) at Theater des Westens, Berlin The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Limehouse at the Donmar Ghosts at HOME The Alchemist, The Merchant of Venice and Arden of Faversham for the RSC Frøken Julie at Aarhus Theatre, Denmark Krapp’s Last Tape and A Taste of Honey at Sheffield Crucible The Country Wife and Good at the Royal Exchange Derren Brown: Svengali in the West End and on UK tour Twisted Tales at the Lyric Hammersmith Honest at Royal & Derngate (also Edinburgh and Soho Theatre) Eigengrau at the Bush and Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Thyestes at the Arcola.Īwards include Olivier for Best Entertainment (with Derren Brown, 2014), the JMK Young Director’s Award (2007) and the 2006/7 Bulldog Princeps Bursary Award at the National Theatre Studio. In her spare time, she writes songs and fronts her band Sula & The Noise. ![]() Her novel Getting Mother’s Body is published by Random House.Īwards Suzan-Lori Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Upcoming: Plays for the Plague Year.įilm & television includes The United States vs Billie Holiday (writer) and Genius: Aretha (showrunner/executive producer/head writer). Her project 365 Days/365 Plays – where she wrote a play a day for an entire year – was produced in over 700 theatres worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theatre history. Theatre includes Topdog/Underdog (Pulitzer Prize), Porgy and Bess (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), The Book of Grace, Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical, In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book Of The Dead, Venus, The America Play, Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 and 3) and Fucking A. “That sense of it being absolutely of the moment, makes its coruscating plea for people to find new ways of creating freedom and equality even more necessary.” “Brilliant, savage, surrealist satire from the great Suzan-Lori Parks” “An intentionally provocative play that coats its ugly premise with wit and words.” “It’s a blazing, bruising, urgent piece of theatre” "Its ambitious scope of ideas ensures that the play is funny, challenging, audacious and profoundly unsettling" After an acclaimed world premiere at the Public Theater in New York, it has its European premiere at The Bridge, directed by Polly Findlay. Written by Suzan-Lori Parks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Topdog/Underdog and Father Comes Home from the Wars, White Noise takes an unflinching look at race in the 21st century from both a black and white perspective. Shaken to the core, he brings to the group an extreme proposition. As best friends and lovers, confident in their woke-ness, their connection with each other is stronger than anything else – until, that is, Leo is assaulted by the police in a racially motivated incident. ![]() Leo would be a talented visual artist – if only he could sleep. Misha is producing the hit online show ‘Ask A Black’ Ralph is waiting for tenure at his university, and as a lawyer, Dawn spends her days fighting for social justice. Making their way together in the big city, they are liberal, open-minded and socially aware. Thirty-somethings Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn have been inseparable since college. “Parks has written precisely the play for this anguished moment” – Alexis Soloski
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