The Red Letter Plays

Parks, Suzan-Lori

ISBN 10: 1559361956 / ISBN 13: 9781559361958

Edité par Theatre Communications Group, New York, NY, 2003

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Red Letter Plays
• Éditeur: Theatre Communications Group, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1559361956
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781559361958
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition; Second Printing.
• État de l'article: Good+

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Synopsis

"Suzan-Lori Parks 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], and has written two haunting riffs on Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter: In the Blood and F***ing 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 F***ing 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.<p.

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

À propos de l?auteur

One of contemporary American theater's most innovative wordsmiths. Her plays include: Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer-nominee), Fucking A, Venus (OBIE Award), The America Play and Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (OBIE Award, Best New American Play). She is also a screenwriter, novelist, and MacArthur Genius grantee.