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Feb 23, 2007

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts." --William Shakespeare

365 Days, 365 Plays

Some writers are congenitally prolific. But even Suzan-Lori Parks sometimes thinks she's taken that tendency a little too far. In 2003, Parks decided to write a play for every day of a year, and went on to craft more than 365 miniscripts that ranged in length from three lines to three pages. And then the dramatist made another decision: Persuade theater communities nationwide to produce all 365 scripts -— one a day from Nov. 13, 2006 through Nov. 12, 2007. Parks didn't just talk that talk. She walked the walk, making her 365 scripts available royalty-free to anyone who wanted to produce them. There was a string attached: all shows had to be free. At last count, more than 700 theater outfits from Alaska to Austin, Texas, to New York City were signed on.