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Lillian Hellman

January 2023

  • Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida.

    The week in theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; Watch on the Rhine – review

  • Patricia Hodge in Watch on the Rhine.

    Watch on the Rhine review – Lillian Hellman’s call to arms is a must-see

December 2022

  • Lillian Hellman in 1945.

    ‘She’s writing in a state of emergency’: Lillian Hellman’s thrilling Watch on the Rhine

    As Hellman’s 1941 play is revived at the Donmar Warehouse in London, director Ellen McDougall and dramaturg Emma Jude Harris explain how it remains a call to arms

October 2016

  • Hilary MacLean, Madeleine Millar and Mark Aiken in The Autumn Garden

    The Autumn Garden review – Hellman's unhappy guests overstay their welcome

    A strong cast imbue Lillian Hellman’s 1951 play with a keen malaise, though they are shackled by the author’s enervating attitude towards her characters

February 2011

  • keira

    The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review

  • the children's hour billington

    The Children's Hour - review

January 2011

  • Lillian Hellman

    The scandalous Lillian Hellman

    She was the first woman to be admitted to the club of American dramatists, writing a hit play when she was 29. Her love affair with Dashiell Hammett was a scandal and her memoirs were notoriously unreliable. As The Children's Hour opens in London tonight, Sarah Churchwell sorts the good from the bad in Lillian Hellman

March 2008

  • The Children's Hour

    Lillian Hellman's play demonstrates the destructive power of a compulsive liar, writes Alfred Hickling

February 2007

  • The Little Foxes

    Perth Theatre

October 2001

  • The Little Foxes

    Donmar Warehouse, London
    Rating: ****

September 2001

  • A study in emotion

    She can do Chekhov or The Borrowers. Hare, Pinter and Bennett love her. Penelope Wilton explains her craft.

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