Praxiskolleg

In November of 2002, the year she won the Pulitzer Prize for ‚Topdog/Underdog‘, Suzan-Lori Parks decided to write one play per day for an entire year. Four years later, these short plays, published as ‚365 Days/365 Plays‘, were performed over the course of a year in what may be the largest and most elaborate theatrical premiere ever (New York Times, 10 Nov 2006). The 365 Festival involved and connected more than 700 theatres (NYT, 10 Nov 2006). While Parks compares the process of writing a play per day with meditation and prayer, she emphasises the communal experience of staging this large cycle of plays across an entirenation.