![]() ![]() ![]() Her love-hate emotions for them force her into frantic outbursts, and she reaches for rescue to victimizers who repeatedly let her down in the past. Lynch) and youngest daughter Beauty (Emily Duval). Hester must raise her illegitimate brood (“my five treasures”) in this shabby environment: sweet but slow-thinking Jabber (Kenneth McClain), 2-year-old Baby (Kevin Nichols), oldest daughter Bully (Vonyse), middle son Trouble (Joseph R. The actress is competent without being electric enough to make us feel the magnitude of the heroine’s mounting despair.Īction is authentically launched by Andrew Deppen’s set, consisting of tin cans and cardboard boxes hanging from a series of vertical poles, and the sound of overhead passing cars contributed by Matt Anderson and David Ledger. This difficulty is intensified by miscasting Stocker in the central role. Individual details are honest, but the visceral horror of suffering and starvation fails to come across. As written by 2002 Pulitzer prize winner Parks (“Topdog/Underdog”), the 1999 play, an updating of “The Scarlet Letter,” is a stark, uncompromising drama. ![]()
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