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The Red Letter Plays
Contributor(s): Parks, Suzan-Lori (Author)

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ISBN: 1559361956     ISBN-13: 9781559361958
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2000
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Annotation: ""In the Blood" is an extraordinary new playIt is truly harrowingwe cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with "a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.'"-Margo Jefferson, "The New York Times"
The playwright who "has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way [John Heilpern, "New York Observer" and "Vogue"]," has written two haunting riffs on Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter: In the Blood" and "Fucking A."
Hester La Negrita of "In the Blood" is an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children-"my treasures, my five joys"-who practices writing the alphabet to help herself "one day get a leg up. The letter A is as far as she gets. Hester Smith of "Fucking A" works the only job available-abortionist to the lower class, in order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son. Her branded A bleeds afresh every time a patient comes to see her.
These are two mature, beautifully crafted, inventive and poetic plays by one of the most unique voices writing for the stage today.
Suzan Lori-Parks is also the author of "The America Play and Other Works" and "Venus," both published by TCG. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | American - African American
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Drama | Women Authors
Dewey: 812.54
LCCN: 00046679
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.75 lbs) 224 pages
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In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red-hot iron.'--Margo Jefferson, The New York Times

The playwright who has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way John Heilpern, New York Observer and Vogue], has written two haunting riffs on Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter: In the Blood and Fucking A.

Hester La Negrita of In the Blood is an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children--my treasures, my five joys--who practices writing the alphabet to help herself one day get a leg up. The letter A is as far as she gets. Hester Smith of Fucking A works the only job available--abortionist to the lower class, in order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son. Her branded A bleeds afresh every time a patient comes to see her.

These are two mature, beautifully crafted, inventive and poetic plays by one of the most unique voices writing for the stage today.

Suzan Lori-Parks is also the author of The America Play and Other Works and Venus, both published by TCG. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

 
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