The Red Letter Plays

The Red Letter Plays
Title The Red Letter Plays PDF eBook
Author Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher Theatre Communications Grou
Pages 260
Release 2001
Genre Drama
ISBN 9781559361958

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Two new controversial plays based on The Scarlett Letter.

In the Blood

In the Blood
Title In the Blood PDF eBook
Author Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher Dramatists Play Service Inc
Pages 84
Release 2000
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780822217565

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THE STORY: In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter , Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and write, but the letter A is

The Red Letter Plays: in the Blood and Fucking A

The Red Letter Plays: in the Blood and Fucking A
Title The Red Letter Plays: in the Blood and Fucking A PDF eBook
Author Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 2020-04-23
Genre
ISBN 9781848429673

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Two haunting riffs on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, from a leading American playwright. Hester La Negrita of In the Blood is an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children, whose daily struggle among many is to master writing the alphabet, to help herself 'one day get a leg up'. She remains unable to get further than the letter A, scrawled in chalk beneath a railway bridge. Suzan-Lori Parks' play In the Blood was first staged at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York, in 1999. It was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2000. Hester Smith of Fucking A works the only job available - back-street abortionist - 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. Fucking A was first staged at the DiverseWorks Artspace in Houston, Texas, in February 2000.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter
Title The Scarlet Letter PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 1851
Genre
ISBN

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365 Days/365 Plays

365 Days/365 Plays
Title 365 Days/365 Plays PDF eBook
Author Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher Soft Skull Press
Pages 428
Release 2006
Genre Drama
ISBN

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On November 13, 2002, the author decided to write a play every day for a year. She began that same day. The result, completed exactly one year later, is this collection of 365 plays.

Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit
Title Strange Fruit PDF eBook
Author Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 446
Release 1998-01-22
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780253211637

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"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are grounded—not only in the truth of white racism's toxic effect on our national existence but also in the truth that there exists a contesting, collective response that is part of an on-going and continually building momentum." —Theaatre Journal "A unique, powerful collection worthy of high school and college classroom assignment and discussion." —Bookwatch This anthology is the first to address the impact of lynching on U.S. theater and culture. By focusing on women's unique view of lynching, this collection of plays reveals a social history of interracial cooperation between black and white women and an artistic tradition that continues to evolve through the work of African American women artists. Included are plays spanning the period 1916 to 1994 from playwrights such as Angelina Weld Grimke, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Lillian Smith, and Michon Boston.

Red Letter Days

Red Letter Days
Title Red Letter Days PDF eBook
Author Sarah-Jane Stratford
Publisher Penguin
Pages 402
Release 2020-02-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0698195302

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When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past. Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted—caught in the Red Menace that is shattering the lives of suspected Communists. Desperate to work, she escapes to London, determined to keep her dream alive and clear her good name. There, Phoebe befriends fellow American exile Hannah Wolfson, who has defied the odds to build a career as a successful television producer in England. Hannah is a woman who has it all, and is now gambling everything in a very dangerous game—the game of hiring blacklisted writers. Neither woman suspects that danger still looms . . . and their fight is only just beginning.