A TIMELINE OF IN THE BLOOD By Claire O'Connor
JANUARY 2020 FUN FACT Tasia A Jones was hired as a guest artist for this Jones helped choose In the Blood project. She interviewed in August 2019 after for this season’s production. being referred on another project. Be sure to Usually the plays are chosen much check out Tasia A Jones’ previous work in farther in advance, usually a year Intimate Apparel, In the Blood, & The Inside! before, through a committee process involving students, faculty To find out more, check out the Department of and staff. However, there was a Theatre’s website: rights issue with the original play, so Jones was able to give her input https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/rueffschool/th on the new selection. eatre/about/index.html
APRIL 2020 FUN FACT The crew for the production is April 24th 2020 was the submission deadline chosen long before casting for student video auditions. In the video, decisions are made. Crew is students needed to perform a contemporary finalized on a rolling basis starting monologue. Casting was completed at the end a year before the project debuts. of April. All performance and production assignments are chosen via open You can find out more about the audition audition or interview, and non- process here: theatre majors are always welcome! https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/rueffsch ool/theatre/news/auditions-in-the-blood.html
FUN FACT AUGUST 2020 The Red Letter plays are two plays written by Suzan-Lori Parks, In the Blood Purdue's fall semester started on August 24th. & Fucking A. Both are loosely based on Through script analysis, performance analysis, the classic novel The Scarlet Letter by and design of Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Red Nathaniel Hawthorne. To learn more Letter plays, as well as the creation of original about these plays, read this interview monologues, students in the THTR 536 course with Suzan-Lori Parks: explored some of the tools and techniques that aid artists in virtual storytelling. https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theat er/suzan-lori-parks-talks-poiitics- inspiration-james-baldwin-and-the- You can learn more about the final class red-letter-plays project, In the Blood Part 1, using the link below!
https://indd.adobe.com/view/2f2a883b-0f31- 4b0a-afae-e24aa0fed978 SEPTEMBER 2020
On September 25th, In the Blood Part 1 debuted. In the Blood will run in the In this presentation, members of the cast and Mallet Theatre in Pao Hall March production team exhibited their process by 25th-28th, 2021. sharing "confessions" from In the Blood as well as original monologues inspired by the work of To get tickets to this show or to Suzan-Lori Parks. The performance also find out more about all Purdue included confessions written by students about Theatre Productions please check their own lives. To get a better sense of In the out the Department of Theatre’s Blood this review can provide more detail: Upcoming Performances!
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