The Scarlet Letter
July 10 & 11 at 7:30 PM
Renowned scholar and psychologist Carol Gilligan’s adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel.
Directed by Leigh Silverman, this intensive script workshop features Marisa Tomei as Hester Prynne, Ron Cephas Jones as Arthur Dimmesdale, and Bobby Cannavale as Roger Chillingworth.
The cast also includes veteran actors Karen Beaumont, Dan Colman, Marin Ireland, John McAdams, Tom Nellis, Henny Russell, and Ching Valdez.
"Hawthorne's brilliant insight - he is writing now in 1850, at the time of Brook Farm and the Abolitionist Feminists - was that the very qualities that render a woman able to see the iron framework of society also disable her as an adulterated woman. He captures it all in the letter A, which, as the story explains, means Able as well as Adultery. The central theme in my book, The Birth of Pleasure, is the tension between love and patriarchy. This is also the theme of The Scarlet Letter."
- Carol Gilligan