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About Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) on Broadway
Closing
Dec. 7, 2014
Story for Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Jo Bonney (Small Engine Repair, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark) directs this moving and haunting drama comprised of three plays presented in a single performance by Pulitzer Prize winner and The Public's Master Writer Chair Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog, The Book of Grace).
Part 1: “A Measure of the Man”
Hero, a slave who is accustomed to his master’s lies, must now decide whether to join him on the Confederate battlefield in exchange for a promise of freedom.
Part 2: "A Battle in the Wilderness"
Hero and the Colonel lead a captured Union soldier toward the Confederate lines as the cannons approach.
Part 3: “The Union of My Confederate Parts"
The loved ones Hero left behind question whether to escape or wait for his return - only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost.
Part 1: “A Measure of the Man”
Hero, a slave who is accustomed to his master’s lies, must now decide whether to join him on the Confederate battlefield in exchange for a promise of freedom.
Part 2: "A Battle in the Wilderness"
Hero and the Colonel lead a captured Union soldier toward the Confederate lines as the cannons approach.
Part 3: “The Union of My Confederate Parts"
The loved ones Hero left behind question whether to escape or wait for his return - only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost.