The Price Center observed Women’s History Month with a dramatic reading of Susan Glaspell’s one-act play “Trifles” on March 20. First performed by the Provincetown Players in 1916, the drama opens with the farmer John Wright dead and his wife, the only suspect, held for his murder. As the Sheriff and the County Attorney search for clues, the sheriff’s wife and a neighbor, relegated to her kitchen, imagine the wife’s life. “Trifles” not only solves a mystery but also questions a justice system unconcerned with the realities of women’s lives.
The play was followed by a question and answer session about women and the justice system then and now with Hays Caldwell Women’s Center Executive Director Melissa Rodriguez.
The all-female cast included Price Center Board Members Garrie Borden, Shannon Fitz-Patrick, Jeannie Garthwaite, Priscilla Leder, Carmen Rumbaut and Annie Teehan.
Above left and right, a scene from the dramatic stage reading of “Trifles.” Daily Record photos by Shannon West
