Playwright Anne L Thompson Scretching Does It Again

July 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Set in the 1940’s, A Lesson in Blood, depicts characters in the rural south, and the tension between races. In her synopsis of the play Anne states,
In “A Lesson in Blood,” Aggie is the daughter of a card carrying Klansman who has returned to the south after a seven year absence because she is dying.  Unbeknownst to her family, she has given birth to a child. The father is a colored Cherokee Indian who lives with his Aunt Lucy and his brother Calvin whose upbringing is obscured in African superstition and Georgia roots. Aggie only reveals the secret to Osceola, that he’s the child’s father. All hell breaks loose when Clara the woman Osceola is seeing threatens to tell “the law” when she finds out the two were lovers. The law is a childhood friend, Johnny Ray the Sheriff, who is a Klansman and a racist. When Aggie is murdered, the Sheriff gets Osceola fired from his job at Noah Cohen office who is a Jewish lawyer who befriends this colored family. The mystery is who killed Aggie, was it Clara or Calvin who hated her or was it the Sheriff who loved her.”
You can be sure that opening night of “A lesson in Blood,” at the American Theatre for Actors will be a packed house. Under the influence of the famous and prestigious Sidney Poitier, Anne L. Scretching has proved herself top notch. Her past productions have even reached the stages of the ATA, and Playwright Horizon, with great reviews from The New York Time’s, The Post, The Beacon, and even Channel 7 Eyewitness News. Coming from the American Theatre for Actors, where the likes of Bruce Willis, Dennis Quaid, and many others have rose from the theatre ashes, and proved them worthy of the New York applause, Anne as well, has made her mark.

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A Lesson in Blood continues from August 10th through August 20th at the American Theatre of Actor’s, 314 w 54th Street, Btw 8th and 9th Avenue