Fucking A
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 16, 2003
Closed Apr 6, 2003
Opened Mar 16, 2003
Closed Apr 6, 2003
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks returns to The Public Theater with Fucking A, directed by Michael Greif. The play features Bobby Cannavale, Mos Def, S. Epatha Merkerson and Daphne Rubin-Vega, and is an otherworldly tale that rips the A from The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and brands it onto the chest of Hester Smith, the Abortionist. Against all odds Hester Smith, believing her only son is wrongly imprisoned, devotes her life to securing his freedom. Featuring ten original songs, the show marks the first time Suzan-Lori Parks has extensively integrated music into her work. The result is a darkly comic and profound look into the domino effect of revenge and the lengths a mother will go for the love of her son.
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Beginning the week of Tuesday, April 1st, FUCKING A will play Tuesday through Saturday at 8p.m., Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2p.m.
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Public Theater/Anspacher
425 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10003
The Anspach Theatre at the Public seats 275. Founded in 1954 by Joseph Papp, this is arguably the strongest not-for-profit theater in New York. The productions presented here are continually daring and inventive. The success of this theater stems [...] Read More
425 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10003
The Anspach Theatre at the Public seats 275. Founded in 1954 by Joseph Papp, this is arguably the strongest not-for-profit theater in New York. The productions presented here are continually daring and inventive. The success of this theater stems [...] Read More
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This year's Suzan-Lori Parks play, Fucking A, makes last year's Suzan-Lori Parks play, Topdog/Underdog, look like a Pulitzer Prize winner. No, wait a minute; Topdog/Underdog actually did win last year's Pulitzer, thereby earning an honor that has not been a particularly reliable indicator of dramaturgical excellence over the years.
Though the earlier piece -- in which brothers Lincoln and Booth test each other's authority with destructive results -- is something of an extended, post-modern burlesque sketch, it also contains some beautifully wrought, genuinely scarifying sequences. Not as much can be claimed for Fucking A, which the playwright has been readying for some years and which she h[...]