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The America Play and Other Works

"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."—Vogue

Themes
theatre
Setting
1990scollege
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages
Form
plays

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