Synopsis
"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens...
The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—The New York Times
"Thrilling.... A masterpiece... A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."—New York
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 projected 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 for 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
g A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The America Play.
In 2007 her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide.
Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.
