Reviews for The Red Letter Plays

The average rating for The Red Letter Plays based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-02 00:00:00 Thomas Grillo I read an essay that Parks wrote about writing that I found obscure, unhelpful, and unnecessarily eccentric. Thank God her writing is much better than I thought it was going to be. The first thing to note is her distinct voice. It really is one of a kind. Her plays are abstract, archetypal, dialect-filled, and limit-pushing romps. Yeah, they're romps. I occasionally felt alienated by her universes, but her dialogue is engaging and her thematic threads are tight. I'd recommend this if you're looking for a distinctly different read.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-19 00:00:00 Mark Maciel This was my second go around with In The Blood which I still like but Fucking A was Fucking Great. Grand in scale, The Handmaid's Tale if it were written by Sophocles. Suzan-Lori Parks knocks it out of the park (whoops) with a plot you can see coming but that keeps you gripped in its inevitability.