Frasi di Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks è una drammaturga, sceneggiatrice e scrittrice statunitense.

Nel 2002 è stata la prima donna afroamericana a vincere il Premio Pulitzer per il miglior dramma, per Topdog/Underdog. Le sue opere narrano argomenti inerenti al razzismo e il sessismo. Dirige il programma di teatro al California Institute of the Arts.



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✵ 10. Maggio 1963
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Suzan-Lori Parks: Frasi in inglese

“you're only yourself when no ones watching!”

Suzan-Lori Parks Topdog/Underdog

Origine: Topdog/Underdog

“I am the white woman character, black woman character. I am the black man character, the white man character…I have to stand in that person’s shoes.”

Suzan-Lori Parks

On embodying every one of her characters in “Pulitzer Prize Winner Suzan-Lori Parks Questions ‘Woke-ness’ With Her Latest Off-Broadway Play” http://www.playbill.com/article/pulitzer-prize-winner-suzan-lori-parks-questions-woke-ness-with-her-latest-off-broadway-play in Playbill (2019 Mar 1)

“Black people have had to become great at seeing ourselves where we are not present because that’s where we grew up. I see myself in Downton Abbey. Even before they introduced the black character, I was right there. Some weeks I was upstairs, some weeks I was downstairs! But it is different when you have a character who looks like you, so I’m glad to have plugged that gap a little bit.”

Suzan-Lori Parks

On the United Kingdom being behind the United States when it comes to incorporating Black characters in “Suzan-Lori Parks: 'People in America are often encouraged not to think'” https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/21/suzan-lori-parks-interview-royal-court-father-comes-home-from-the-wars-obama in The Guardian (2016 Sep 21)

“At that time the army had just been integrated in the States. And it was one of the few industries that offered black people the possibility of advancement if you did a good job. Most industries didn’t have that then: you were the last hired and the first fired. He was in Vietnam and we were sitting waiting, and we were luckier than some because he was able to come home and live a pretty good life.”

Suzan-Lori Parks

On her father’s military experiences in “Suzan-Lori Parks: 'People in America are often encouraged not to think'” https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/21/suzan-lori-parks-interview-royal-court-father-comes-home-from-the-wars-obama in The Guardian (2016 Sep 21)

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