The Children's Hour
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 22, 2011
Closed Apr 2, 2011
Opened Jan 22, 2011
Closed Apr 2, 2011
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When a schoolgirl's whisper spreads, it triggers a chain of events with extraordinary consequences. Karen Wright (Keira Knightley) and Martha Dobie (Elisabeth Moss) run a girls' boarding school in 1930s New England, where they become entangled in a devastating story of deceit, shame and courage. Banned in London and several cities across America, The Children's Hour received its world premiere on Broadway in 1934. Generations on, its potent exploration of a culture of fear remains startlingly relevant.
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In 1933, when Lillian Hellman wrote her first play, The Children's Hour, now being revived at the Comedy Theatre, she was heading boldly into uncharted territory. Taking on lesbianism, as well as the repercussions of a brazen lie at a small girls' school in a small and small-minded New England town, hardly left room for subtlety. How she hammered home her points to a fault is now easy to see in the ultimately effective production, starring Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss under Ian Rickson's forceful direction.
While the play has its persuasive moments, one can see how it's aged. That's not because the subject matter has become rusty -- how a vindictive child can ruin the lives of two[...]