While reporting on the sensational events surrounding a murder, newspaper journalist Susan Glaspell saw the opportunity to tell a story of rich characters and deep themes. In August of 1916, she gave the theatrical world Trifles, the story of a man heinously hacked to death at his home and the pursuant investigation.

The one-act piece written in the midst of the first wave of the Feminist Movement centers its narrative voice around the women in the story. It is one of the first plays to explore a female character’s perspective and acknowledges the emotional and physical abuse that mars some relationships, a lamentably uncommon plot point at the time.

As literary and dramatic critic Sharon Friedman wrote of the play many years later,"Feminism as a theme should not be understood as simply a call for women's rights on the part of the playwright or her characters. Rather, it may be a statement about feminine consciousness, the feelings and perceptions associated with a female character's identity of a woman."

Glaspell’sTrifles is an intense, exciting mystery play which we are overjoyed to reinvigorate with this treatment.

WHAT: Trifles by Susan Glaspell
WHEN: Sunday, June 27, 2021
WHERE: Goldfinch Podcast Network (anchor.fm/gpn)
TICKETS: Free, Donations encouraged

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