A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again. Careening through memory and language, Parks explores and explodes archetypes of Black America with piercing insight and raucous comedy. A riotous theatrical event, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World hums with the heartbeat of improvisational jazz.
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1990, BACA Downtown, New York
2019
Samuel French, Inc.
978-0573706264
included in Moon Marked & Touched by Sun, Sydné Mahone Ed.
included in Moon Marked & Touched by Sun, Sydné Mahone Ed.
Realistic
Four friends gather around a community centre about to be torn down, as they feel the need to say their goodbye one last time to the place they all called home for so long. While they are gathering they reminisce about what the community center means to them and the play becomes a much more urgent commentary about both the disintegration of Regent Park and the lives of the young men most affected by it.
Stylized
Two women start out as teens living in the West Indies, sharing the kind of bond that only two young sistahz can. One is subjected to sexual abuse while the other has the opportunity to move to Canada and does so.
