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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Theater Suzan-Lori Parks Is Coming to Tacoma

Posted by on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:25 AM

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She studied writing with James Baldwin. She wrote Fucking A, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Entire World, and won a Pulitzer for Topdog/Underdog. She wrote Girl 6 for Spike Lee and won a MacArthur Genius Grant. She also wrote and launched the colossal but not-entirely-successful 365 Days/365 Plays project, but whatever. She's a genius.

And on Sept 22, Suzan-Lori Parks is coming to speak at the University of Puget Sound. Tickets are $15. You can buy them over the phone: 253-879-3419.

 

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Jason Josephes 1
You can't refer to the writer of Girl 6 as a genius. Not unless you've actually seen it, I mean. If you haven't then sure, she can split the atom like any other Einstein.
Posted by Jason Josephes http://www.myspace.com/bluemoonseattle on September 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM
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I confess I haven't seen it. But nobody can shit gold every time.
Posted by Brendan Kiley on September 10, 2009 at 10:43 AM
br@d 3
Girl 6 had some real moments of genius. And she probably didn't have anything to do with the schlocky phones falling from the sky at the end.
Posted by br@d on September 10, 2009 at 10:48 AM
4
The idea that a genius would only ever produce works of genius is absurd.
Posted by William D. Brattain on September 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Roscoe 5
You can't refer to the author of TOPDOG/UNDERDOG as a genius, except as a knockoff genius.

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG was much better when it was a Sam Shepard play called TRUE WEST.
Posted by Roscoe on September 10, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Fnarf 6
Being a "genius" because you wrote this, that or the other thing is rather subjective. Winning a MacArthur Genius Grant isn't. She's a genius because the definition of a genius is "won a genius award".
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on September 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 7
She's lovely and down to earth in person. Go see her because she's interesting, not because she's a "genius".
Posted by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot http://lifetimesshortnow.blogspot.com on September 11, 2009 at 1:37 PM

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