The America Play, and Other Works
- ISBN-10
- 1559360925
- ISBN-13
- 9781559360920
- Category
- Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Author
- Suzan-Lori Parks
Description
A collection of plays and essays by one of America's premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on Dust Commander, Pickling, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, and The America Play.
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