The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

2 Avg rating—2 Votes

Book name:	The Children's Hour (2024)
Category:	Plays
Author:	Lillian Hellman
Pages:	75 pages
ISBN13:	0822202050
ISBN:	0822202050
Language:	English
Publication data:	Jan. 1, 1953, 8 a.m.

Cast 2 men, 12 women. One of the great successes of this distinguished writer. A serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumor about the two women, the rumor soon turns to 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.

About the author

Lillian Hellman

3 books

Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter famously blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52.

Hellman was praised for sacrificing her career by refusing to answer questions by HUAC; but her denial that she had ever belonged to the Communist Party was easily disproved, and her veracity was doubted by many, including war correspondent Martha Gellhorn … Read more