Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/national-theater-celebrates-365-days-365-plays Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play a day for 365 days beginning in November 2002. In commemoration of Parks' achievement, cities and communities across the nation are performing her plays one day at a time. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: It was not a typical day at the theatre recently in Denver. ACTRESS: You're kidding. ACTOR: No, I'm not. ACTRESS: Your legs are folded underneath you… JEFFREY BROWN: Actors delivered their lines on a sidewalk while the audience watched from the street. The play ended only minutes after it began… ACTOR: Step right up… JEFFREY BROWN: … and was followed soon after by another one across the street. ACTOR: Well, that's the end of that, I guess. JEFFREY BROWN: Nothing, in fact, was typical about the "365 Days, 365 Plays" project, not how the plays were written, one a day over the course of a year… ACTRESS: Let me pass! JEFFREY BROWN: … and now how they're being presented, by hundreds of theatre companies around the country in a year-long festival.In New York recently, I met up with the woman behind all this. In 2002, Suzan Lori Parks had just won a Pulitzer Prize for her play "Top Dog Underdog," when she got the idea of writing a play a day.