365 Days / 365 Plays

Plays great, love reading one each day.

Fascinating works.

I loved reading these plays! Even in college I always preferred the absurd scripts, although the classics were required study and performance, whenever I had a chance I would go for the avant-garde. If you are imaginative and are very right-brained, I think you will enjoy this book.True, it is not the typical Samuel French or Dramatist's Play Service script, but if you are looking for that, you already know where to find it. Some of the plays have no dialogue and are only pedestrian action or even some nonsense. But if you are able to look deeper, there is a pervasive social commentary that is the through-line of the book. Good for reading on the train...5 Stars!

We were required to use the book for a directing class, and while I appreciated the diversity of the short plays and the goal behind 365 plays, some were too much. As a learning tool, it was helpful in being imaginative and learning how to guide people through your directions, but I wouldn't personally seek it out.

I was fortunate to be part of the festival with my high school students and now own a signed copy after meeting Suzan-Lori at the opening night of the San Francisco festival. Our production was dramaturged by my students, who created a thematic sense of seven of the gems in this playbook, and performed brilliantly (still one of my crowning glories). She is a down to earth person and a talented writer with an important voice. These are wonderfully short pieces that have also been effective in my acting classroom.

this is an innovative, intimate, lumen to a writers personal daily offering. Suzan-lori Parks has written a play a day for a year totaling over 365 works ( on some days she wrote more then one. Each play or playlet is of gem quality and despite their brief duration some less than a page, are nevertheless complete works. it is the distilled, no frills quality of these plays that bring the nectar sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter. well worth reading or performing as can be attested by the numerous actors and production companies now involved with the national premier of these plays. Over seven hundred theatre companies in 15 different cities have come on board for the production. A great addition to a library of classic, enduring work

Let's face it, most of these playlets are garbage. They would almost have to be. S. L.-P. is a talented and interesting playwright. Top Dog/Under Dog deserved the Pulitzer, but these are writing exercises and most of them should remain that way. Don't be fooled by the hype. Yes some of them are gems and those should be done--like the seven mentioned above but as a whole they are pedestrian and mind numbing.

This book is horrible, perhaps the worst I've read. Do not buy this waste of paper, you'll regret that you did.