Scarelt Letters
The stage is bohemian basic—two standing house lights, a mic stand, some patterned cloth, and a lava lamp. Behind the stage area tacked up to one of the wooden cabinets, a sign reads "This is a WordPlay safe space." The scene is far from the Puritan New England landscape that Nathaniel Hawthorne evoked in his 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter. Yet for the teens, standing up in front of a crowd of their peers—I imagine—breathing softly into the microphone, trying to gather their nerves and vocal chords into some kind of unified performance, Hester Prynne's pillory experience of public examination isn't actually that far off.
Scarlet Letters - Baton Rouge Lagniappe Magazine
The stage is bohemian basic—two standing house lights, a mic stand, some patterned cloth, and a lava lamp. Behind the stage area tacked up to one of the wooden cabinets, a sign reads "This is a WordPlay safe space." The scene is far from the Puritan New England landscape that Nathaniel Hawthorne evoked in his 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter. Yet for the teens, standing up in front of a crowd of their peers—I imagine—breathing softly into the microphone, trying to gather their nerves and vocal chords into some kind of unified performance, Hester Prynne's pillory experience of public examination isn't actually that far off.
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created: 2007-01-05 18:35:34 updated: 2007-01-05 18:35:34