Trifles

A Farmer is found dead in the middle of winter. Strangled in his bed. When a neighboring farmer comes upon the scene the following day, he is left with no choice but to notify the sheriff. The sheriff wastes no time taking the farmer's wife, Minnie, into custody after hearing her claim to have been sleeping soundly when the tragic event occurred. As the neighbor retells his story to the sheriff and county attorney; their wives, who are there to collect personal property for Minnie, begin to form there own conclusions. And will their discoveries and growing sympathy for an isolated farmer's wife cause them to suppress vital and condemning evidence? Trifles is a timeless classic. Based on the true story of a murder that Susan Glaspell covered for a Des Moines newspaper in 1900.

Literature & Fiction

Susan, Glaspell

Patricia Robinson Jordan

Dramas & Plays

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Eben Cabot s future seemed assured when his mother, on her deathbed, secured her husband Ephraim s word that he would leave his fortune to her son. Ephraim gave his word, but the promise came at a price. Two sons from a previous marriage were cut out, making life in the Cabot household miserable while his dispossessed progeny hoped for a change of heart. But, when Ephraim brings home a new wife, Abbie, any plans Eben and his stepbrothers might have had for a carefree future grow dim. The brothers decide to depart for greener pastures; Eben s choice is to stay and fight for what is his. Abbie, however, only entered into the marriage looking to secure a livelihood of her own, and there is no room for Eben in her financial planning. Never loving Ephraim, she cynically begins an affair with Eben to undercut his opposition...and the two enemies find themselves in love. Soon after, she bears Eben s child. To prove she would never love anyone more than Eben, she hatches a plan leading to a tragic conclusion, worthy only of the ancient Greeks.

Desire Under The Elms by Eugene O'Neill

EUGENE O'NEILL

Introduction by Patricia Robinson Jordan

Juno Boyle, a hard-working Dublin tenement dweller whose husband, 'Captain' Jack, is unwilling to get a job and spends most of his day swilling booze and reminiscing about the past with his parasitic pal, Joxer. Juno is a good woman who does the best she can for her family, but in many ways, she is the enabler who allows Jack to indulge in his irresponsible lifestyle. Their daughter, Mary, who wants to better herself, makes every effort to move out of the poverty in which the family is mired. Mary, however, is now out on strike and her brother Johnny, injured in Republican fighting, has become another drain on the family's slim resources. Juno's hopes for her daughter are raised when she brings home a young man who delivers unexpected and promising news to the family, thereby setting off a series of developments that, in turn, become both funny and dispiriting.

Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey

Seán O'Casey

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