Glaspell, Susan - The Spectator (essay date 1926)
The Spectator (essay date 1926)
[In the following review, the critic faults Glaspell for being too strident in her plays, but ultimately praises her work for its experimental themes and characterizations.]
We owe Mr. Norman Macdermott, and the company of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, a great deal for an excellent performance of Miss Susan Glaspell's Inheritors, at the Everyman Theatre.
It is the most ambitious play of this very remarkable American dramatist, the one that obviously ranges farthest—traversing a long stretch of time, and including an extensive criticism of American mental limitations. This is not to say that Inberitors is Miss Glaspell's best play. If, in the theatre, you like a light thrown upon secret places—the theme working itself out from the individual soul—you will prefer The Verge or Bernice: the first given by Miss Thorndike not long ago; the other, for a few performances, at the...
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