TCG Publishes 'FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS' from Suzan-Lori Parks

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3). The play premiered in the fall of 2014 at The Public Theater in New York with a subsequent co-production in the winter of 2015 with A.R.T. in Cambridge, MA.

The play was named the winner of the 2015 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama and a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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 projecting 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 in 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, f-ing A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced in more than seven hundred theatres worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at The Public Theater.

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Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

By Suzan-Lori Parks

Paperback 192 pages

$15.95 978-1-55936-500-0

eBook 978-1-55936-817-9

May 2015

Other titles by Suzan-Lori Parks, available from TCG:

Topdog/Underdog

$14.95 978-1-55936-201-6

365 Days/365 Plays

$19.95 978-1-55936-286-3

Venus

$14.95 978-1-55936-135-4

The Red Letter Plays

$17.95 978-1-55936-195-8

The America Play and Other Works

$15.95 978-1-55936-092-0

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