{"product_id":"9781559367370","title":"The Red Letter Plays","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"In the Blood\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e],\" has written two haunting riffs on Hawthorne’s \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlett Letter: In the Blood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFucking A.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHester La Negrita of \u003ci\u003eIn the Blood\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFucking A\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are two mature, beautifully crafted, inventive and poetic plays by one of the most unique voices writing for the stage today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuzan Lori-Parks\u003c\/b\u003e is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe America Play and Other Works\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVenus\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by TCG. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132619735280,"sku":"9781559367370","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781559367370_p0.jpg?v=1763758435","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781559367370","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}