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

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

<div><p><B>Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama</B></p><p>"The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—<I>The New York Times</I></P><p>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, <I>Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) </I>is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present.</P><p><B>Suzan-Lori Parks </B>became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play <I>Topdog/Underdog </I>in 2002. Her other plays include <I>The Book of Grace</I>, <I>In the Blood</I>, <I>Venus</I>, <I>The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World</I>, <I>Fucking A</I>, <I>Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom </I>and <I>The America Play</I>. In 2007 her <I>365 Days/365 Plays </I>was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.<br></div>