[Capdist-announce] IN THE BLOOD Opens Harbinger's Third Season Friday, 3/15 as the Last Production at St. Rose Theatre

[Patrick White]

*In the Blood*
*Opens Friday!*
3/14 FREE Preview 7:30pm
3/15 Opening Night & Talkback 7:30pm
3/16 Farewell to St. Rose Night 6:30pm
3/17 Matinee 2pm

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.
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 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.

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.
IN THE BLOOD
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by TJ Collins
Stage Manager Lauren D’Annibale
Lighting Design David Caso
Sound Design Andrew Deitch
Light Board Op John Schnurr

The St. Rose Theatre
996 Madison Ave
3/15-3/24
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