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A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 2m
Suzan-Lori Parks
Grace, a woman desperately seeking positivity in the world, keeps a book of everything good in her life. That gets even more difficult when her stepson Buddy returns home to confront his father. An allegorical Suzan-Lori Parks take on the kitchen-sink drama.
Image: 2010 Public Theater Production (Joan Marcus)
Encouraged by his stepmother to return home to South Texas, a young man reunites with his abusive father, unearthing an explosive combination of deep-seated passion and ambition. Described by Suzan-Lori Parks as a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, this fierce and intimate three-person drama premiered in 2010 at New York’s Public Theater, and is published here with the playwright’s final, revised text.
VET BUDDY GRACE
Author's Note: In NYC, at The Public, we worked with a superb multiracial cast. In Austin, at ZACH, we worked with an equally superb cast, and chose to go ABC (All Black Casting). I feel that a monochromatic casting allows the production to embrace the more profound and thorny themes of the play. That said, I also understand that any casting choice will, especially with this play, open up its own can of worms.
In NYC, at The Public, we worked with a superb multiracial cast. In Austin, at ZACH, we worked with an equally superb cast, and chose to go ABC (All Black Casting). I feel that a monochromatic casting allows the production to embrace the more profound and thorny themes of the play. That said, I also understand that any casting choice will, especially with this play, open up its own can of worms.
A house in a small town near the Border.
“Brutal and beautiful.” – TheatreMania
“An incredibly gripping and crucial piece of theatre.” – Broadway World UK
“The Book of Grace offers further evidence that Suzan-Lori Parks thinks big even when she thinks small… The family portrait she paints here is nothing less than a map of a nation that is divided within itself and poised to fall… This play is infused with an exciting emotional ambiguity that transforms its characters into people of splendidly confused humanity.” – Ben Brantley, New York Times
“Suzan-Lori Parks has laid out the conflicts among these characters with such economy and clarity that they run like a taut steel cord throughout the play; it’s as lean and direct a drama as she’s written.” – Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle
“This is an incredibly accomplished piece of theatre, addressing so many of the themes that are pertinent in the current political environment.” – The Spy in the Stalls
“The script of Suzan-Lori Parks carries profound psychological depth.” – Theatre Weekly
“The Book of Grace is undoubtedly a stellar piece of theatre.” – Theatre Weekly
Book of Grace Interview Video
Named one of Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” in 2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog.
A MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, she has also been awarded gr ...
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