The Children's Hour
When I heard that Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss would star in a revival of Lillian Hellman's classic realist play The Children's Hour in London this spring, my first thought was, "Why now?" The play, written in 1934, remains one of Hellman's most famous. Based on a true story about two headmistresses in Scotland in 1810, the play addresses the consequences of a lie spread by a difficult child at a school for g…