“FUCKING A “Review

Review

In Fucking A the "A" exposed on this Hester's breast stands not for Adulterer but for another profession despised by its oppressive society: Abortionist. Though the Hester plays share central focus on an oppressed woman, (both with a Latina best friend) they are stylistically quite different.  If not naturalistic, In the Blood was rooted in a recognizable contemporary urban world. Fucking A has no specific historical grounding: Set in "a small town in a small country in the middle of nowhere," it is a dark fable, a mythic parable in an echt-Brechtian style. Indeed, it has a small ...