"Splendid . . . . We must be grateful to the smart and brave theatres like Metropolitan "
--Martin Denton for nytheatre.com

"[A] lost gem in a thrilling production  . . . performances that threaten to blow the roof off the theatre."
--Victor Gluck for Back Stage

INHERITORS

Susan Glaspell’s 1921 drama begins in 1879, when the maverick Silas Morton defies the wisdom of realtors and homesteaders alike and establishes a college on a prime spot of land on the Mississippi.  Forty years later, when the country is swept up by rabid "Americanism", Silas’s iconoclastic granddaughter is a student at the college he founded, and she is faced with social ostracism, family reprisal, and federal prison when she stands up for the civil rights of two Indian nationalists.  In this strikingly prescient story, one woman must set herself outside of her society to embrace the legacy of her inspirational ancestor.
Inheritors

November 11 - December 11
Thursday - Saturday at 8pm,
Sunday at 2pm
Special Added Performance:
Saturday, 12/10 a 2:00 pm

November/December 2005
Thursday
 Friday
 Saturday
 Sunday

November 11
8pm
 November 12
8pm

 November 13
2pm
Post-show
Discussion
November 17
8pm
 		November 18
8pm 		November 19
8pm

 November 20
2pm
Post-show
Discussion
Happy
Thanks
giving
 		November 25
8pm 		November 26
8pm

 November 27
2pm
December 1
8pm

 		December 2
8pm

 December 3
8pm

 December 4
2pm
December 8
8pm 		December 9
8pm 		December 10
2pm
&
8pm
 December 11
2pm
Starring:
Sean Dill, David Fraioli*, Peter Judd*,
David Lally, Tod Mason*, Samantha Needles, Jeff Pagliano, Margaret Loesser Robinson*, Sue Glausen Smith, and Matthew Trumbull.

 		Directed by:  Yvonne Conybeare
Stage Manager:  Pamela Hybridge
Set Design:  Ryan  Scott
Costume Design:  Rebecca Lustig
Assistant Costume Design:  Emily Pepper
Lighting Design:  Alexander C. Senchak
Music/Sound Design:  Ben Ruby
Violin:  Ben Lively
Fight Director:  Scott Barrow
Dramaturg:  Michael Bloom
SUSAN GLASPELL (1876-1948) is most notable today from her one-act play Trifles. She was one of the founding members of the Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod, where she discovered the then unknown playwright Eugene O’Neill, became a driving force in the Little Theatre Movement, and changed America’s theatrical landscape in the process.

Susan Glaspell married George Cram Cook in 1913 and together they wrote Suppressed Desires and founded the Provincetown Playhouse to produce their own work.  Moving the Playhouse to New York, they achieved great critical acclaim, which eventually caused a rift between the founding and the new members of the Playhouse. They left the Players in 1922, after Inheritors was produced, which became Glaspell’s last Provincetown production. Glaspell and Cook moved to Greece, where he died two years later of glanders.

 Glaspell then had a short relationship with Norman Matson, an undistinguished writer who was unable or unwilling to accept her literary prowess.  Soon after in 1936, Glaspell accepted a position as the Director of Midwest Play Bureau for the Federal Theater Project.  She resigned in 1938 and returned to Provincetown, entertaining friends, her stepchildren, and continuing to write. She died in Provincetown Massachusetts in 1948.
 Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell
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* Member, Actors Equity Association Inheritors is an Equity  approved Showcase