Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2 & 3

**Finalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama** "The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—*The New York Times* Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, *Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3)* is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present. **Suzan-Lori Parks** became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play *Topdog/Underdog* in 2002. Her other plays include *The Book of Grace*, *In the Blood*, *Venus*, *The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World*, *Fucking A*, *Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom* and *The America Play*. In 2007 her *365 Days/365 Plays* was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.