![]() ![]() In addition, many parts of the play’s dialogue are enclosed in square brackets, which indicates that they are optional.ĭressed as Lincoln, the Foundling Father opens by repeating a number of cryptic, self-referential phrases, like “I cannot dig, to beg I am ashamed,” most of which are quoted from other sources. ![]() The Foundling Father’s lengthy monologue, broken up by stage directions to “ (Rest),” comprises this entire act like virtually all the dialogue in Parks’s plays, this monologue is punctuated and spelled unconventionally in order to evoke vernacular African American speech. Suzan-Lori Parks’s challenging, experimental two-act work The America Play takes place in “an exact replica of the Great Hole of History,” a setting meant metaphorically as well as literally: Act One of the play, “Lincoln Act,” opens in this hole in the ground, which has been dug by its protagonist: an African American gravedigger-turned- Abraham Lincoln imitator known only as the Foundling Father. ![]()
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