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Clyde Fitch's four-act Civil War drama centers on Barbara Frietchie, adapting the heroine of Whittier's poem while weaving in a fictionalized love story based on Fitch's grandparents. The production sought historical realism and experimented with confined acting spaces.
Jonathan Jinks bets that he can seduce opera star Aurelia Trentoni, but they fall in love and he regrets the wager. After an attempted customs bribe lands him in jail, a friend uses the bet as evidence that he is a fortune hunter; Jinks and Aurelia eventually reconcile when she invents an excuse for his missed trial.
In this version of Daudet's story, Fanny LeGrand's perspective is foregrounded: she seduces the naïve Jean Gaussin, but ultimately leaves him so he can reform and marry the father of her child. The play's most notorious scene sends the pair up a staircase toward an implied bedroom.
At a masked ball, Suzanne Blondet feigns drunkenness to influence her dissipated husband and bring about his reform.
A three-act play developed from Clyde Fitch’s one-act The Harvest, whose wedding-day revelation that the bridegroom fathered a child with another woman became the new play’s second act.
Society matron Eve Lindon suspects her husband Fred of an affair with her friend Becky and hires a detective to follow him. As Eve confronts Becky and the Warders, Becky's habitual lying makes it difficult to tell truth from deception.
Margaret has been married to Julian but three months when Julian is arrested for the murder of his best friend, Philip Long. It had previously been thought that Long had committed suicide, but his family refused to accept such a gruesome idea. Just prior to the arrest, newspaper reports told of the discovery of love letters from Julian to Claire Foster, whom Long was planning to marry. The implication is that Julian must have killed Long in a fit of jealousy. Julian, however, is known by all as a man of uncommon integrity. Margaret never questions his innocence; she decides to disguise herself as a member of the underclass in order to get to know Claire Forster (herself a member of the lower class) in an attempt at getting Claire to explain how she set Julian up. Margaret does this successfully; she gets Cliare drunk, and Claire then explains that her actions constitute an effort at getting even with Julian. Julian had ruined Claire's prospects for marriage by revealing to Long the baseness of his fiancée, after which Long, broken hearted, told Claire the wedding was off and proceeded to shoot himself. Julian is acquitted.
Clyde Fitch's four-act Civil War drama centers on Barbara Frietchie, adapting the heroine of Whittier's poem while weaving in a fictionalized love story based on Fitch's grandparents. The production sought historical realism and experimented with confined acting spaces.
Jonathan Jinks bets that he can seduce opera star Aurelia Trentoni, but they fall in love and he regrets the wager. After an attempted customs bribe lands him in jail, a friend uses the bet as evidence that he is a fortune hunter; Jinks and Aurelia eventually reconcile when she invents an excuse for his missed trial.
In this version of Daudet's story, Fanny LeGrand's perspective is foregrounded: she seduces the naïve Jean Gaussin, but ultimately leaves him so he can reform and marry the father of her child. The play's most notorious scene sends the pair up a staircase toward an implied bedroom.
At a masked ball, Suzanne Blondet feigns drunkenness to influence her dissipated husband and bring about his reform.
A three-act play developed from Clyde Fitch’s one-act The Harvest, whose wedding-day revelation that the bridegroom fathered a child with another woman became the new play’s second act.
Society matron Eve Lindon suspects her husband Fred of an affair with her friend Becky and hires a detective to follow him. As Eve confronts Becky and the Warders, Becky's habitual lying makes it difficult to tell truth from deception.
Margaret has been married to Julian but three months when Julian is arrested for the murder of his best friend, Philip Long. It had previously been thought that Long had committed suicide, but his family refused to accept such a gruesome idea. Just prior to the arrest, newspaper reports told of the discovery of love letters from Julian to Claire Foster, whom Long was planning to marry. The implication is that Julian must have killed Long in a fit of jealousy. Julian, however, is known by all as a man of uncommon integrity. Margaret never questions his innocence; she decides to disguise herself as a member of the underclass in order to get to know Claire Forster (herself a member of the lower class) in an attempt at getting Claire to explain how she set Julian up. Margaret does this successfully; she gets Cliare drunk, and Claire then explains that her actions constitute an effort at getting even with Julian. Julian had ruined Claire's prospects for marriage by revealing to Long the baseness of his fiancée, after which Long, broken hearted, told Claire the wedding was off and proceeded to shoot himself. Julian is acquitted.