Metal
One fall Saturday in 1660, Hester Prynne walks through Boston wearing her a scarlet ‘A’ on her bodice and leading her 12 year-old daughter Pearl with her. The Puritan townspeople notice Hester and self-righteously describe the Biblical “good wife,” which she clearly isn’t. Pearl wonders why everyone is looking at them. (Opening)
Pearl and Hester encounter the Reverend Dimmesdale and Pearl asks Dimmesdale about the origin of her mother’s ‘A’. Hester, eager to avoid that conversation, sends Pearl to the blacksmith. (Metal)
Performed by Katie Kring
