He and She
He and She Alternative Title: The Herfords
Author: Rachel Crothers
First Performance: 1911, Poughkeepsie, NY
Published: 1917; rev. 1925
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: The Herfords' home, USA, c.1910
Cast: 3m, 5f
Ann and Tom Herford are both sculptors, who have been married for 17 years. Separately, they enter a competition for a frieze design, and despite Tom regarding himself as the better artist, Ann wins the $100,000 prize, while Tom comes second. At first, Tom seems delighted at his wife's success but soon begins to question aggressively how she will be able to attend to her household duties if she is to fulfil this commission. Their teenage daughter Millicent arrives unexpectedly from her boarding school to announce that she is engaged to the school chauffeur. She had...
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