Six Plays by Lillian Hellman
by Lillian Hellman
from Vintage
These six plays span nearly twenty years of theatre and display the range of Lillian Hellman's dramatic gifts. The Children's Hour (1934), her first play, was considered shocking at the time; it concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers. Days to Come (1936) is about the tragic consequences of strike-breaking in a small Midwestern community. The Little Foxes (1939) and Another Part of the Forest (1946) together constitute a chilling study of the financial and psychological conflicts within the Hubbards, a wealthy and rapacious Southern family. Watch on the Rhine (1941), the story of how fascism affects an American family and the refugees they harbor, won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The Autumn Garden (1951) is a poignant yet humorous drama set at a summer resort near New Orleans.
The Children's Hour (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints)
by Lillian Hellman
from Kessinger Publishing, LLC
The Little Foxes.
The Lark.
by Jean Anouilh
from Dramatists Play Service
The Autumn Garden.
Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts
by Lillian Hellman
from Dramatists Play Service
This drama for 4 men and 4 women is the story of two sisters and their miscreant brother who mysteriously comes across a large sum of money that would make all their dreams come true, if only it hadn't been obtained by unscrupulous means.
Watch on the Rhine.
Another Part of the Forest.
An unfinished woman; a memoir
Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world, and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own.
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