Father Comes Home From The Wars Opening Night Celebration on October 28, 2014 at The Public Theater- Cast members Sterling K Brown, Jenny Jules, Jeremie Harris, Peter Jay Fernandez, Tonye Patano, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, Louis Cancelmi, Russell G. Jones, Jacob Ming Trent, director Jo Bonney and Julian Rozzell Jr. Photo by Lia Chang
New York Times Critics’ Pick FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3), written by Suzan-Lori Parks, opened at The Public Theater on October 28, 2014.
Sterling K. Brown, Jacob Ming-Trent, Suzan-Lori Parks, Peter Jay Fernandez, Russell G. Jones, Jeremie Harris and Julian Rozzell Jr. Photo by Lia Chang
Check out the review roundup at Broadwayworld.com and my opening night photo coverage below.
The cast for FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3) features Sterling K. Brown (Hero); Louis Cancelmi (Smith); Peter Jay Fernandez (Oldest Old Man); Jeremie Harris (Homer); Russell G. Jones (Leader, Runaway); Jenny Jules (Penny); Ken Marks (Colonel); Jacob Ming-Trent (Fourth, Odyssey Dog); Tonye Patano (Third Runaway); and Julian Rozzell Jr. (Second, Runaway).
Father Comes Home From The Wars playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and director Jo Bonney. Photo by Lia Chang
Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog, The Book of Grace) continues her longstanding relationship with The Public Theater with FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3), a devastatingly beautiful, dramatic work set over the course of the Civil War. Jo Bonney directs this moving and haunting drama comprised of three plays presented in a single performance. In Part 1, “A Measure of the Man,” Hero (Sterling K. Brown), 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, “The Battle in the Wilderness” follows Hero and the Colonel (Ken Marks) as they lead a captured Union soldier toward the Confederate lines as the cannons approach. Finally, in 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.
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (left) with Public Theater Associate Artistic Director Mandy Hackett, Father Comes Home From the Wars director Jo Bonney, and Artistic Director Oskar Eustis. Photo by Lia Chang
A masterful new work from one of our most lyrical and powerful writers which was a part of the 2013-14 Public Lab season, FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS is a deeply personal epic about love and hope in a world of impossible choices. Presented in association with American Repertory Theater.
Tonye Patano, Peter Jay Fernandez, Gloria Reuben, Charles Randolph Wright, Sterling K. Brown and Brandon J. Dirden. Photo by Lia Chang
FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3) features scenic design by Neil Patel, costume design by ESOSA, lighting design by Lap Chi Chu, and sound design and music supervision by Dan Moses Schreier.
TICKET INFORMATION
FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3) began performances on Tuesday, October 14 in The Public’s Anspacher Theater and runs through Sunday, November 16, with an official press opening on Tuesday, October 28.
Single tickets, starting at $60, are on sale now and can be purchased by calling (212) 967-7555, http://www.publictheater.org, or in person at the Taub Box Office at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street.
The performance schedule is Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m.
The company of Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3). Photo by Joan Marcus
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Lia Chang is an actor, a performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist. Lia starred as Carole Barbara in Lorey Hayes’ Power Play at the 2013 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C., with Pauletta Pearson Washington, Roscoe Orman, and made her jazz vocalist debut in Rome Neal’s Banana Puddin’ Jazz “LADY” at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York. She is profiled in Jade Magazine.
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