"The finest work yet from this gifted writer... By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Suzan Lori-Parks's new play swoops, leaps, dives, and soars, reimagining a turbulent turning point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens... The wonder of Ms. Parks's achievement is how smoothly she blends the high and the low, the serious and the humorous, the melodramatic and the grittily realistic." - Charles Isherwood, "New York Times"
"This show is just plain fun to watch." - Marilyn Stasio, "Variety"
"A masterpiece. Without ever leaving the confines of the particular situation, Parks manages to send tendrils of thought shooting out into the future: to Jim Crow, to the great migration, to redlining and slums and even stop-and-frisk... But "Father Comes Home From the Wars" is also heartbreakingly individual." - Jesse Green, "New York"
"Parks' incomparable command of percussive vernacular is no surprise, and her dialogue here might just as easily be sung. This haunting work is funny and tragic, whimsical and lacerating, poetic and poignant, navigating its radical tonal shifts with fluidity and grace." - David Rooney, "Hollywood Reporter"
"Provocative, rich and irreverently funny." - Elisabeth Vincentelli, "New York Post"
"Parks charges up the play with fluid, poetic dialogue that's whimsical and elevated by turns... Plays of this much intensity and focus demand total attention, and reward one with kaleidoscopic satisfaction; the more you reflect on what you've seen and heard, the more you find meanings, jokes, and intriguing connections." - Kilian Melloy, "Edge Boston"
"Bold, hugely entertaining, moving and thrillingly ambitious... Parks is assured of having created her most vivid and satisfying work since the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Topdog/Underdog."" - Michael Giltz, "Huffington Post"
"Her writing runs, nay races, from the sublime and lyrical to the (intentionally) low and ridiculous. Hers is a voice to be reckoned with, now and in the remaining six parts to come." - Jack Craib, "South Shore Critic"
"One of the top plays of the year... A richly textured mix of Brechtian allegory and Homeric epic, finding new meaning in an essential American tragedy." --Richard Zoglin, Time
Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—The New York Times
Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present.
Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include The Book of Grace, In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.
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