The America Play and Other Works

Parks brings a powerful African American female perspective to contemporary avant-garde theater--or perhaps it's the other way around. This volume covers her career from its beginning in the mid-1980s up to 1994. All the works are audacious. Black history, black culture and the supernatural collide in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World. In The America Play, a black man travels the U.S. reenacting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln over and over, as other characters try to extricate themselves from the giant pit of history (and to figure out how they got into it). This volume includes the euphoniously titled Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on the Dust Commander, Pickling, and Devotees in the Garden of Love.

• Topdog/Underdog
• The Red Letter Plays
• Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
• The Bald Soprano and Other Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs
• Plays: Maria Irene Fornes (PAJ Books)
• Venus
• Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West)
• Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition
• Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays
• Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts