Besides working together on world premieres, the two team-teach a drama course at New York University on … collaboration.
When Parks met Eustis, however, she was relatively unknown. After a 1990 performance of her haunting “The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World” at the BACA Downtown, run by what’s now known as the Brooklyn Arts Council, Eustis and Kushner expressed their admiration. “I didn’t know them by sight,” only reputation, Parks said. “Back in the day, I used to meet a lot of people, but meeting the giants you’d go, ‘Wow, gee.
He offered her a job she couldn’t refuse: residency at the Public through a master writer chair position funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. “American playwrights need what the university system provides scholars: a place to practice her craft free of commercial pressure,” Eustis says. She would be free to write plays, or not write at all. No strings, no fine print: The Public would neither own nor control her work.Suzan-Lori doesn’t believe that despair is a morally acceptable option.
“She hadn’t even told me she was working on this,” Eustis says. “We just read it cold, sitting around the table. It was like she was totally in the pocket of the sound of this play, of who the characters were. We were all shocked and, by the end, in tears.” Parks doesn’t want to talk about theme and symbolism, Eustis says. “And with an actor like Daveed, you don’t have to explain.”
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