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By Nathaniel Hawthorne
New Adaptation by Naomi Iizuka
Directed by Lear deBessonet
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October 22 - December 5, 2010
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Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Hester Prynne is one of the great central female characters in American literature—a woman with vital sexuality, force and ironic humor. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, we see what the subjugation of that identity costs both Hester and her community—and what that suppression means for all women who are forced to understand that they have no voice. Staged by Lear deBessonet, a visionary director of innovative new works for the theatre, Naomi Iizuka’s exciting new American Cycle version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel unfolds in the shifting, surprising landscape of past and present co-mingled, bringing us together to explore this universal human story through an aesthetic that is vibrantly alive and American.
The largest initiative of Intiman’s season, the American Cycle is a series of multifaceted, challenging and important American stories and free public programs. Each Cycle play is the centerpiece of numerous city-wide events that encourage conversation and debate about issues relevant to our community, our audiences and people for whom there is otherwise little or no access to the arts.
Lear deBessonet: “I was drawn to The Scarlet Letter not only by its arresting heroine
and vivid hallucinatory imagery, but also by its profound mythic dimensions. Hawthorne has a way of delving into spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint that makes my heart race.” |
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