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Fucking A

by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Rebecca Schneider

Thursdays through Sundays
November 11-20, 2004 at 8 pm
  November 21 matinee at 3 pm

Leeds Theatre

Fucking A is a love story, a revenge tragedy, and a song-full, soul-filled meditation on the contemporary PRISON STATE with

A Hot Live Jazz Ensemble

Scenes that will make you Laugh and Scenes that will grip your Heart
A crazy new language
Some kissing and loving, some hating and shoving
Some hemming and hawing, some drinking and gnawing
--- it's all mixed (with) blood and water and wine .
. to go down .

The show is a vibrant red riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter . Through the letter A, burned onto Hester Smith's chest like a brand, Parks remixes Hawthorne 's Adulteress as an Abortionist in a parable for Our Time . Hawthorne 's Hester committed the "crime" of bringing an unwanted baby, born in prison, into the world. Parks' Hester here mourns a "wanted" child -- a poor boy incarcerated for a minor infraction --a "Boy" who becomes "Monster" during a life of imprisonment.

The Prison
The Mayor's House
A "Picnic"
The Butcher's Shop
Canary Mary Working Hard at What She Does
Jailbait, Monster, Freshly Freed Prisoners
A Scribe
The Freedom Fund
And Even Some Scenes At the Beach .

Parks' temporal slip of the "A" raises urgent questions about rights to life, the death penalty, the inequitable incarceration and disenfranchisement of people of color, and the torture of prisoners and "detainees" held without legal recourse.

A real live line from the play: "falltima Ovo ella greek Tragedy woah-ya." Mistranslation: Come and Get Some

Cast:
Hester Smith.......................................... Celine Justus
Monster................................................. Biko Eisen-Martin
Mayor.................................................... James Lowe
First Lady............................................... Katherine Meister
Canary Mary.......................................... Shannon Ware
Jailbait, Waiting Woman #2..................... Elan Gepner
Freedom Fund Lady, Waiting Woman #1... Rachel Bonds
Butcher................................................. Michael E. Smith
Hunter #1.............................................. Steven Levenson
Hunter #2.............................................. Akela Marsh
Hunter #3.............................................. Grant Derkac
Guard.................................................... Austin Campion
Freshly Freed Prisoners...... Shanell Lockhart, Andrew Thomas Scribe

Stage Manager....................................... Louisa Bukiet
Assistent Stage Managers........................ Christine Chen, Hannah Miller
Dramaturg............................................. Annabel Topham
TALKBACK coordinator............................ Elaine Carberry

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