Title: I beg to Differ, But . . .
Review: True, Hawthorne's novel deserves a full-out treatment, but not one as plodding and slow as this. We all know the complexities of the novel - we are not reviewing that, but rather a version that is at least an 1 1/2 hours too long. The pacing is deadly, the set - a view of Boston in 1650 - looks like Peabody in 1625. 14 people gather around Hester after her 9 foot walk to the public scaffold. The whole production seems smallish.And I'm sorry, but Meg Foster's eyes are so weirdly other-worldish that I couldn't concentrate on much else.This production gets a Scarlet C-.
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