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Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 2m
Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks's new play about race, friendship and our rapidly unraveling social contract.
Image: 2019 Public Theater Production (Joan Marcus)
Winner! 2019 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Long-time friends and lovers Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn are educated, progressive, cosmopolitan and woke. But when a racially motivated incident with the cops leaves Leo shaken, he decides extreme measures must be taken for self-preservation.
LEO – early 30s, of African descent DAWN – early 30s, of European descent MISHA – early 30s, of African descent RALPH – early 30s, of European descent
A thriving city. The present.
Critics Pick! “Enthrallingly thought-packed.” – The New York Times
“Sharp, zingy and oozing a darkly witty energy... a propulsive drama with pace, plotting and a deadly magnetism.” – The Guardian
NYT Critic's Pick. “Enthrallingly thought-packed! In burrowing deep into what one character calls 'the worm hole' of how we talk – and think – about race, Ms. Parks isn’t cutting anyone any slack. Herself included.” – The New York Times
“The brilliance of Suzan-Lori Parks's eviscerating new play White Noise is that underneath the finely crafted, often sharply funny apparent realism of its surface, its roots stretch deep away into archetype.” – Vulture
“Excellent! White Noise is both a thought-provoking and thoughtful examination of racism, and the vexed politics of race and identity that have tested interracial relations personally and politically to so many breaking points.” – The Daily Beast
“Scalding... the tension [Parks] builds as she unfolds her arguments has you leaning forward in your seat... The play never stops working as fierce, gripping drama.” – WhatsOnStage
“Provocatvie and Erudite.” – The Stage
“Shocking, funny, challenging... a sprawling, expressionist work.” – Evening Standard
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 ...