The Playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and Martin McDonagh, Live at The New Yorker Festival
b'This year\\u2019s New Yorker Festival featured two conversations with renowned playwrights: Suzan-Lori Parks and Martin McDonagh. Parks, the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for drama, sat down with the staff writer Vinson Cunningham. \\u201cThe marketplace is telling us that Black joy is what sells,\\u201d she said. \\u201cI\\u2019m very suspicious about what the marketplace wants me to create because I know in my experience where real Black joy resides\\u2014and sometimes that\\u2019s in the place where there might be some traumatic thing that also happened.\\u201d A revival of Parks\\u2019s groundbreaking play, \\u201cTopdog/Underdog,\\u201d just opened on Broadway.\\xa0\\nAnd McDonagh, who is out with a new film, \\u201cThe Banshees of Inisherin,\\u201d spoke with Patrick Radden Keefe. \\u201cThe Banshees of Inisherin\\u201d traces the story of a friendship breaking apart in the beautiful, remote hills of western Ireland. \\u201cI just wanted this [movie] to be sort of plotless in a way,\\u201d McDonagh said. \\u201cJust to have the unravelling of this breakup be what the whole story was about.\\u201d'