Park, LondonThese plays on American women's lives and history lack spark, except for Trifles, understated and poignant, from 1916Susan Glaspell's 1916 feminist short play Trifles is like finely stitched linen: delicate but tough. Farmer John Wright is dead and his wife is held in the town jail on suspicion of his murder. The sheriff, Peters, and his deputies return to the farmstead to look for clues with Mrs Peters, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:44AM on July 14, 2014