The America Play

By Suzan Lori-Parks

Hypothetical Set Design in Richmond’s Firehouse Theatre

The America Play follows a black Lincoln impersonator in the Reconstruction who lets white men reenact Lincoln’s assassination on him for money. The design invokes imagery of Lincoln’s log cabin and the chair he was assassinated with, along with a mulch pit known simply in the script as “The Great Hole of History.” Designed for a black box theater, the scent of the mulch is meant to fill up the intimate space and remind the viewer of what secrets are buried and the meaning of soil in the African Diaspora.

1/4=1’

Additional Modeling Work

1/2”= 1’ Scale Model Done For Model Making Class, Spring of 2022

1/2”= 1’ Scale Model Done For Model Making Class, Spring of 2022