Awards
1990 OBIE Award winner for the Best New American Play
Synopses & Reviews
Upon its first production at BACA Downtown (Brooklyn) in 1989, Suzan-Lori Parks's Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom was praised by Mel Gussow of The New York Times and the newspaper named her "the year's most promising new playwright." Aliza Solomon of Yale University's Theater magazine wrote: "With startling stage imagery and a lyrical sense of wordplay that has been scarce in American playwriting for ages...Parks achieves a powerful allegorical absurdism by dramatizing through the everyday surreality what it means to be alive." John Heilpern described Parks' talent in Vogue: "She has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way." The play won an OBIE award in 1990 for the Best New American Play.
About the Author
Ms. Parks is also the author of The Red Letter Plays, The America Play and Other Works, and Venus. Her play Topdog/Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. She is currently in residence at the California Insitute of the Arts in Valencia.