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Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes" is a well-known play that explores the complex relationships between greed, energy, and family struggle in the early 1900s American South. The tale takes region in a Southern metropolis after the Civil War and is written by using the well-known author Lillian Hellman, who is recognized for her sharp seems at human relationships. Hubbard's family, mainly Regina Giddens, is on the middle of the story. Regina is d...

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The Children's Hour is a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and to avoid being sent back she tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair. The accusation proceeds to destroy the women's careers, relationships and lives. It is later discovered that ...

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Cast 2 men, 12 women. One of the great successes of this distinguished writer. A serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumor about the two women, the rumor soon turns to scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too la...

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A Chekhovian comedy from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lillian Hellman about the sad and funny frailties of human existence. As the summer of 1949 draws to a close, a group of middle-aged friends are gathering for their annual retreat at a genteel Southern resort. An acquaintance from the past thrusts himself into the yearly gathering, forcing them to re-examine their mundane yet seemingly idyllic existence, the opportunities theyve lost, ...

Als Lillian Hellman und ihr Lebensgefährte, der berühmte Krimi- Autor Dashiell Hammet, zu den McCarthy-Verhören geladen werden, verlieren die beiden nicht nur viel Geld und Aufträge, sondern vor allem viele vermeintliche Freunde, die sich plötzlich von ihnen abwenden. Gegen den Rat ihres Anwalts verweigern beide die Auskunft über andere und nehmen die Folgen dieses mutigen Entschlusses in Kauf. Voller Wut und doch nüchtern gibt Hellman einen g...

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Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth." Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years later, Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charg...

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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 ...