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.
Stylized
Black Boys is created from the lives of three Black men seeking a deeper understanding of themselves, of each other, and of how they encounter the world. As they explore their unique identities on stage, they subvert the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race are performed.
Realistic
Wagoosh has a vision and follows the signs south. Absalom, an escaped slave, is running north. When the two meet, the inevitable clash of cultures leads them on a strange and desperate flight from the plantation owner. Red, black and white, the men must come to grips with the things that unite and divide them. - A complex picture of race relations in 19th century America.
