This week on the Working podcast, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks discusses what it means to make a faithful adaptation.
This week, host Isaac Butler talks to Suzan-Lori Parks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most recent project is a musical theater adaptation of the 1972 Jamaican crime film. In the interview, Suzan-Lori shares her flexible approach to adaptation and, more specifically, how she was able to deepen the original story ofwhile honoring the original. She also talks about the unique challenges of adapting a movie into a stage musical.
After the interview, Isaac and co-host Karen Han talk about the ubiquity of adaptations and reboots and what it means to make a whole new piece of work out of old material.in which she wrote a play a day for an entire year. Isaac also asks about a unique playwriting convention that Suzan-Lori pioneered.
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