The Scarlet Letter

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T1601855882 (CFT05) Phyllis Nagy's sexually charged adaptation has never before been performed in the UK.Corporate Sponsor University College Chichester. Producer Chichester Festival Theatre. Director Phyllis Nagy. Design Peter McKintosh. Sound Gareth Fry. Lighting Paul Pyant. Performer Elizabeth McGovern. Performer Martin Duncan. Performer Barry McCarthy. Performer Jo Stone-Fewings. Performer Katherine Tozer. Performer Zoe Waites. Performer Alan Williams.

11 Aug 05 to 8 Sep 05

Minerva Theatre, Chichester :: V1310317653 listing details L739562236

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Play :: The classic exploration of sin and hypocrisy vividly re-imagined and stripped bare. In the seventeenth century Puritan colony of Boston, Massachusetts, Hester Prynne has been branded an adulteress and sentenced to wear the scarlet letter A. But she turns the mark of her shame into a badge of beauty and refuses all demands to name her lover, the father of her tear-away daughter, Pearl. Then Hester's husband arrives in town, determined to uncover the truth. Psychologically complex and rich in images The Scarlet Letter is regarded by m any as the greatest of all American novels.

Book by	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author	Phyllis Nagy (1994)