By Susan Lori Parks<br>
Directed by Wendy Mortimer<br>
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In The Blood is a beautiful and disturbing poetic riff on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter that follows the story of Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother raising her children on the tough inner-city streets. As she turns to other adults (her minister, her social worker) for help, she discovers that her children, the only source of joy in her life, may in fact be the smarter than the world around them.