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In the Blood (play) In the Blood (play) In The Blood is a play written by Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered at The Joseph Papp Public Theater in 1999. Parks borrowed many aspects from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", and wanted to create a play based on the novel. She originally wanted to call the play "Fucking A", but scrapped the idea. She later wrote the story based on the main character from "The Scarlet Letter", and turned the story into more modern era, and changed the title to "In The Blood". She later wrote a different play that she did title "Fucking A". "In