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'She's writing in a state of emergency': Lillian Hellman's thrilling Watch on the Rhine by David Jays

As Hellman's 1941 play is revived at the Donmar Warehouse in London, director Ellen McDougall and dramaturg Emma Jude explain how it remains a call to arms "We're shaken out of the magnolias, eh?" muses a matriarch towards the end of Watch on the Rhine. In Lillian Hellman's 1941 play, a comfortable Washington family is confronted with the reality of Europe's fight against fascism " and must make a choice about where …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM on December 12, 2022

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