"In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...
It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York..
Suzan Lori-Parks is also the author of The America Play and Other Works and Venus , both published by TCG.
These are two mature, beautifully crafted, inventive and poetic Plays by one of the most unique voices writing for the stage today.
Her branded A bleeds afresh every time a patient comes to see her.
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.
The Letter A is as far as she gets.
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 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 wayJohn Heilpern, New York Observer and Vogue ]," has written two haunting riffs on Hawthorne\'s The Scarlett Letter: In the Blood and Fucking A. "In the Blood is an extraordinary new play...
It is truly harrowing...we cannot turn away, and we do not want to
