The Children's Hour
Children's Hour, The Author: Lillian Hellman
First Performance: 1934, New York
Published: 1934
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Boarding school and Mrs Tilford's home, New England, 1930s
Cast: 122m, 12f
With stretched finances, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie run a girls' school. When they punish Mary, a difficult pupil, for lying, she pretends to have a heart attack. Martha tries to get her aunt Mrs Lily Mortar, who has a dubious influence on the girls, to go to Europe, and Lily angrily retaliates by accusing Martha of being jealous, because Karen is about to marry Mary's cousin, Dr Joe Cardin. Hearing of this accusation, Mary runs away from the school and tells her grandmother Mrs Tilford that Karen and Martha are lesbians. Horrified, Mrs Tilford informs the other parents, who begin to withdraw their daughters...
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