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This double-bill brings together two rarely performed and contrasting plays by American writers of the early twentieth century. First performed in 1916,Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a brilliantly atmospheric one-act play based on the real life story of a woman accused of murdering her husband. Glaspell was a Pulitzer-prize winning author and has been described as "American drama's best kept secret" In Alice Gertsenberg's Fourteen, a fashionable society hostess struggles to salvage her carefully planned dinner-party in the face of blizzards, chicken-pox and unexpected guests...

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Susan Glaspell (Trifles), Alice Gerstenberg (Fourteen)