IU Theatre and Drama Presents The America Play

The America Play
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe

Can black identity ever truly be formed when it is constructed upon white history? This question cuts to the heart of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parkss powerful and provocative The America Play. With echoes of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, Parkss unique theatricality and expressive language impressively interrogate American history through the eyes of a single black man, a gravedigger known as the Foundling Father. Laced throughout with wickedly irreverent and incisive humor, the play cuts through to the painful truth that the unlearned facts of history make fools of us all. The America Play exposes what Parks calls The gap between the promise and the reality of this country, and that is a wound.

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[DeeDeeTV]

Great job by Edris Cooper director!!

[Marketer12]

Amazing video!

[conewells]

Suzan is certainly obsessed with the Lincoln murder. She shoulda written the screenplay for Speilberg's aborted Lincolm Movie.

[LyricalLoki]

Thank you Jessie Bess!

Cat -x-

[mecl713]

This show is amazing!!! Congrats guys!

[anianrie]

Wow, Catherine you've got lungs!! You looked good! And really funny! (00:58-1:00)

xD I want to see this!!! <3

[gazelleman08]

Loved the montage of screaming at the end :)