If you didn’t get a chance to see Suzan Lori-Parks’ amazing play Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts I, II, III when it appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in 2016, you’re in luck. The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco launches a new production this week in association with Yale Repertory Theatre. The production begins on Wednesday and continues through May 20th.
In the play, set during the Civil War, a slave is given his own Sophie’s Choice of a decision to make: He can fight for the Confederacy and attain his freedom, or he can stay with the woman he loves and still be a slave. The play was inspired by the Odyssey.
Liz Diamond directs this production and the cast features James Udom as “Hero,” Eboni Flowers as “Penny” (the woman he loves) and Craig Marker as “The Colonel.”
This is an epic play that earned Lori-Parks the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. She also is a Pulitzer-Prize winner for her play Topdog/Underdog.
Photo by: Joan Marcus
