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Susan Glaspell's adaptation "A Jury of Her Peers" is a story version of her play Trifles. [41] This short story is similar to Trifles. Trifles, a chamber opera in one act, premiered in Berkeley, California, at the Live Oak Theatre on June 17 and 19, 2010 was composed by John G. Bilotta and its libretto was written by John F
"A Jury of Her Peers", written in 1917, [1] is a short story by Susan Glaspell, loosely based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack (not to be confused with the famed abolitionist), which Glaspell covered while working as a journalist [2] for the Des Moines Daily News. [1]
The Provincetown Players was a collective of artists, people and writers, intellectuals, and amateur theater enthusiasts. Under the leadership of the husband and wife team of George Cram “Jig” Cook and Susan Glaspell from Iowa, the Players produced two seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts (1915 and 1916) and six seasons in New York City, between 1916 and 1922.
" "Murder, She Wrote": The Genesis of Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" " (PDF). Theatre Journal. 44 (2): 141–162. This article discusses the case that Susan Glaspell reported on which became the basis for Trifles. It notes how Glaspell's style of reporting changed once she visited the accused's farm, and how she then became sympathetic to the accused.
Susan Glaspell was born in Iowa in 1876 to Elmer Glaspell, a hay farmer, and his wife Alice Keating, a public school teacher. She had an older brother, Raymond, and a younger brother, Frank. [ 9 ] She was raised on a rural homestead just below the bluffs of the Mississippi River along the western edge of Davenport, Iowa .
Trifles (play), one-act play by Susan Glaspell; Trifles (1930 film), short film based on the play with Jason Robards Sr. and Sarah Padden; a small piece of jewellery; word meaning something of insignificance; to treat (someone or something) without seriousness or with a lack of respect
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The Provincetown Players were founded in 1915, by three people: Neith Boyce, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell, who undertook Realism, an eccentric form of theatre at the time. O'Neill joined the Provincetown Players in 1916; they performed his first play Bound East for Cardiff that year.