Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 plays come to UB
By ERICA BOTSIS | Apr. 30, 2007Award winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is famous for many plays, such as "Venus" and "Top Dog Under Dog," but one of her most unique and controversial plays, entitled "365," was performed at the Center for the Arts this past Thursday and Friday by the Inter-media Performance Studio.The Pulitzer Prize-winner originally thought no one would be interested in a play like "365," with its unconventional form, in which sat down every day for an entire year and wrote the play, a culmination of 365 miniature plays."She has a way of connecting the past and the present by summoning the dead," said Dr. Marie Garnett, who spoke at the event and will be writing a book on the playwright."365" takes on new dimensions of theatrical viewing through digital characters, audience interaction and live dancers and actors.
