The Red Letter PlaysIn the Blood is an extraordinary new play It is truly harrowing we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck him, with a sensation not altogether physical yet almost so, as of a burning heat, as if the letter were not of red cloth but of red hot iron.' Margo Jefferson, The New York Times The playwright who has burst through every known convention to invent a new