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Lookingglass Troupe Plans To Stage `Scarlet Letter'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930211
Author:Hedy Weiss

Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic The Scarlet Letter has been the scourge of many a high school English student. But that just means it hasn't always been taught very well.

After all, this is the tale of Hester Prynne, the young Puritan woman forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter "A" on her breast as punishment for her adultery. It's about a beleaguered mother, corrupt clergy, a minister's buried passion and love that cannot be tolerated by society. Sounds pretty juicy. And that's why the Lookingglass Theatre, straight from its imaginative magic carpet ride production of "The Arabian ...

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