<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><div class="gmail_default"><b><i><font size="6" color="#ff0000">In the Blood</font></i></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><font size="6">Opens Friday!</font></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font size="4">3/14 FREE Preview 7:30pm</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font size="4">3/15 Opening Night & Talkback 7:30pm</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font size="4">3/16 Farewell to St. Rose Night 6:30pm</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font size="4">3/17 Matinee 2pm</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px;text-align:left"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Harbinger’s third season opener is the rarely performed “In the Blood” by the Pulitzer Prize Winner Suzan-Lori Parks and will be the last play performed in the St. Rose Theatre.</div></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px;text-align:left"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">It would be reductive to call “In the Blood” simply a modern adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic, The Scarlet Letter, though the similarities are too great to overlook. Instead it seems that Suzan-Lori Parks has taken on The Scarlet Letter as a structural framework <span style="font-family:inherit"><a style="color:rgb(56,88,152);font-family:inherit"></a></span>for her own drama, a road map for allegory. The main character, Hester La Negrita, has five children, each from different, and notably absent fathers. The family of 6 live in destitute poverty beneath a bridge, where Hester tries to learn how to read and goes hungry so that her children can eat.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">A merciless and brutal drama, “In the Blood” offers at the same time a critical portrayal of the treadmill of poverty and a powerful allegory for the subjugation of African-American culture in an institutionally racist system.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">IN THE BLOOD</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">By Suzan-Lori Parks</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Directed by TJ Collins</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Stage Manager Lauren D’Annibale</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Lighting Design David Caso</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Sound Design Andrew Deitch</span></div><div style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Light Board Op John Schnurr</span></div><div style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">The St. Rose Theatre</span></div><div style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">996 Madison Ave</span></div><div style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">3/15-3/24</span></div></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="display:inline-flex;vertical-align:middle;margin:0px 1px;height:16px;width:16px;font-family:inherit"><img height="16" width="16" alt="🎟️" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t16/3/16/1f39f.png" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="border: 0px; object-fit: fill;"></span> <span style="font-family:inherit"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-the-blood-by-suzan-lori-parks-tickets-803460370597?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR3l8_6fDJZMTWNrBe86qOEMyqs8If_FYCz_Y62WReZGHO4yHI0IP95wNLM" rel="nofollow" role="link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;outline:none;list-style:none;margin:0px;text-align:inherit;border-style:none;padding:0px;border-width:0px;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;display:inline;font-family:inherit">https://www.eventbrite.com/.../in-the-blood-by-suzan-lori...</a></span></div></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Photos by David Quinones Jr</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>