Thirty-two of Lillian Hellman´s fifty very public years were devoted primarily to writing for the theatre. Of her twelve plays, eight were original: The Children´s Hour (1934), Days to Come (1936), The Little Foxes (1939), Watch on the Rhine (1941), winner of the New York Drama Critics´ Circle Award for Best American Play, The Searching Wind (1944), Another Part of the Forest (1946), The Autumn Garden (1951) and Toys in the Attic (1960), winner of the New York Drama Critics´ Circle Award for Best American Play.
Her stage adaptation included Montserrat (1950), The Lark (1956), the libretto for the Leonard Bernstein operetta Candide (1957) and My Mother, My Father from The Children´s Hour – (1936), Dead End (1937), The Little Foxes (1941) and The Chase (1966). Her published memoirs included An Unfinished Woman (1969), Pentimento (1973), Scroundel Time (1976), Maybe (1980) and Eating Together, co-authored with Peter Feibleman (1984).
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Thirty-two of Lillian Hellman´s fifty very public years were devoted primarily to writing for the theatre. Of her twelve plays, eight were original: The Children´s Hour (1934), Days to Come (1936), The Little Foxes (1939), Watch on the Rhine (1941), winner of the New York Drama Critics´ Circle Award for Best American Play, The Searching Wind (1944), Another Part of the Forest (1946), The Autumn Garden (1951) and Toys in the Attic (1960), winner of the New York Drama Critics´ Circle Award for Best American Play.
Her stage adaptation included Montserrat (1950), The Lark (1956), the libretto for the Leonard Bernstein operetta Candide (1957) and My Mother, My Father from The Children´s Hour – (1936), Dead End (1937), The Little Foxes (1941) and The Chase (1966). Her published memoirs included An Unfinished Woman (1969), Pentimento (1973), Scroundel Time (1976), Maybe (1980) and Eating Together, co-authored with Peter Feibleman (1984).
Widely hailed as one of the classics of the 20th century American drama, The Little Foxes is a masterful study of one family´s scheming, cruelty, and arrogance in the turn-of-the-century Deep South. Blackmail, treachery and greed are the driving forces within the Hubbard family as they attempt to establish a cotton mill of their property – regardless the cost in human terms.