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Original Title:	The Children's Hour
ISBN:	0822202050 (ISBN13: 9780822202059)
Edition Language:	English

The Children's Hour

Lillian Hellman

Paperback | Pages: 75 pages

Rating: 4 | 11567 Users | 186 Reviews

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Title	:	The Children's Hour
Author	:	Lillian Hellman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Acting Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 75 pages
Published	:	1953 by Dramatists Play Service (first published 1934)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Classics. Theatre. Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer

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This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumour about the two women, the rumour soon turns into a 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 late. Irreparable damage has been done.

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read in high school - One of my favorite plays ever.

This is my second Hellman play, and I'm definitely interested in more of her work after being mesmerized by this and The Little Foxes. I connected with Martha's character right from the beginning -- her sarcasm, her cynicism, and by the end, her desperation were all wholly real to me. I'm also glad to see I'm not the only one who envisioned a link between Mary Tilford and Abigail Williams from The Crucible. What a spiteful little brat.

I had to read this for my Uni Acting For Stage module in which I am directing and excerpt from this piece. I really enjoyed it! I'm really excited to get down and do some directing and hopefully we will all do really well!The play is set in a boarding school for girls where a particularly bratty student starts a viscious rumour about two of the teachers.It provides great social commentary and touches on the themes of LGBTQ+, secrecy, lies, suicide, gender and family.A great read!

Children are the worst.

Compelling. This play is largely character driven and driven by an event caused by a large and dangerous shortcoming or one character. This character lies. The personalities of the characters are prevalent very early on. Hints are given about the characters and the state of their constitution from the very start of the play. The smallest events seem to add to the big picture of who each character is, so by the end of the first act, the reader knows exactly who each character is, the way they

This play has really stood the test of time to become one of the most horrifying and saddening plays ever written. Readers need to understand that the play is less about lesbianism and more about a specific lie. Maybe Hellman did consider lesbianism just a plot device. But "unnatural" love and society's disapproval of it are fundamental to the play, just as anti-Semitism is central to The Merchant of Venice. Readers still argue over whether Shakespeare was criticizing or endorsing the prejudice

Summary: Martha and Karen are best friends running a school for girls in the early thirties. They have a very close relationship, and their extremely manipulative pupil, Mary, decides to play with this well known fact and start a rumor that they are intimately involved. This rumor starts total uproar as their lives, as they once knew them, are destroyed through prejudice and the power of gossip. Why it was meaningful: This is an incredibly well written play, absolutely incredible. It blows my