In the Blood introduces a modern Hester Prynne
She's got a lot more to handle than a scarlet letter. In The Blood is an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterwork, The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne is required by the leaders of Puritan Boston to wear a letter A to identify her as an adulteress after she gives birth to a child while her husband is away. Suzan-Lori Parks, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner, updates the story to i…