Suzan-Lori Parks and Jo Bonney spoke at the 2PM performance post-show talk-back on Saturday, February 21. Click here to watch a recording of the performance.

WATCH ME WORK – Suzan-Lori Parks hosted her WATCH ME WORK performance piece session on Saturday, January 24 at 4:30PM at the A.R.T. Click here to watch a video of the discussion. of Human Rights, there was an additional post-performance discussion with Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates and Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks titled “Fighting for Freedom: The Civil War and Its Legacies” on Sunday, February 8, after the 2PM matinee. There were post-show talk-backs after these performances:Īs part of The A.R.T.

The play contains images of war, racial epithets, and some sexual themes. Prepared high school students will find Parks’s complex and imaginative Civil War parable a rich and rewarding experience. Suzan-Lori Parks’s use of lyrical language, abstract imagery and the theatrical devices of Greek drama might be challenging for young theatergoers. On a laptop, it may be easier to read our Program and Guide by selecting fullscreen, single page view, and then scrolling to read. Read more about Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) in our spring Guide.Read moreĭig deeper into the history behind Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) with these fascinating articles and stop by the Schlesinger Library’s Civil War correspondence exhibition just up the street from the Loeb Drama Center. Please note: this production utilizes some smoke effects. This play is a co-production with The Public Theater and is presented as part of The National Civil War Project.Ĭlick here to read more about the prestigious Kennedy Prize for Drama.

This explosively powerful Civil War drama by Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks follows a slave, Hero, from West Texas to the Confederate battlefield. Inspired in part by the stories and scope of Greek tragedy, this trilogy examines the mess of war and the cost of freedom. “…the finest work yet from this gifted writer.”įather Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) has been awarded the 2015 Kennedy Prize for Drama.

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