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...House of the Seven Gables,” or, morelikely, “The Scarlet Letter.”It is perhaps not surprising, then, that Black Community and Student Theatre (BlackC.A.S.T) chose to produce “In the Blood,” one of Suzan-Lori Parks’ adaptations of the latter this coming weekend, Nov. 9 through Nov. 11 at the Agassiz Theatre.Though this 1999 play may be less shockingly titled than Parks’ other Hawthorne-inspired work, 2000’s “Fucking A,” it still promises to unnerve...
...killed wife Eurydice. He convinces Persephone, wife of Hades and queen of the dead, to release Eurydice, only to lose her by looking back at her as they leave. Here, Orpheus is a rock star, with an electric guitar instead of a lyre. Instead of being married to Eurydice (Suzan Hanson), he has collided with her—literally—only once, when the taxi he was riding ran her over. She dies in his arms and becomes his obsession: Orpheus becomes haunted, refusing to play and brooding over a small shrine of Eurydice’s possessions. Unlike...
...It’s the same as driving a car [and] putting one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes,” says Suzan Song of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Alcohol is a depressant and caffeine is a stimulant. “Since one counteracts another, your body doesn’t tell you you’re at your limit, so you think you can still keep drinking—leading to overdosing...
...amateur community projects, mainly doing adaptations of fairy tales and classic kids' stories. More professional children's theaters started sprouting in the 1960s and '70s in cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs the enterprising Childsplaytheater in Tempe, based on the death of his son, a hemophiliac, from AIDS...
...event, part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard’s “Black Writers Reading” series, featured poet and Yale associate professor Elizabeth Alexander and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks—a 2001 MacArthur Grant recipient who last year became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize...