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National Theater Celebrates ‘365 Days/365 Plays’

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.

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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.