“I LOVE YOU, SO I’M GOING TO SHOW YOU”
AN INTERVIEW WITH SUZAN-LORI PARKS BY SAR AH ROSE LEONARD
TALKING WITH PLAYWRIGHT SUZAN-LORI PARKS is joyous.
P H OTO BY TA M MY S H EL L
Her sentences spool out into a large paragraph punctuated with laughs and “ya knows?” Her phrases seem to bounce as she plays out a thought. It’s enough to make you forget that her plays tackle some of the heaviest, darkest realities in our world. Then you remember that’s how she gets away with it: her love for her characters permeates the darkness of every situation they climb into. Suzan-Lori spoke with Literary Manager Sarah Rose Leonard a month before rehearsals began for White Noise. They discussed what she learned from the first production in New York, and what she’s still thinking about as this second production approaches.
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