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Trifles 100th Anniversary!

Pre-sales are available here About the Book On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by the sensational murder trial she had covered as a young reporter to write Trifles, a play about two women who discover and hide a Midwestern farm wife’s…

Trifles, the film

Interview with filmmakers Pamela Gaye Walker and Sally Heckel… In her groundbreaking book, Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon observes that although “adaptations are everywhere today,” Western culture has a long tradition of “borrowing and sharing” and that among the many motivations for adapting a work, or translating it from one medium to another, is the…