The Price Center continues observing Women’s History Month Thursday, March 20, at 3 p.m. with a dramatic reading of Susan Glaspell’s one-act play “Trifles.” 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 will be followed by a questions and answer session about women and the justice system then and now. The reading is free and open to the public at the Price Center, located at 222 W San Antonio Street.
The all-woman cast includes Price Center Board Members Garrie Borden, Shannon Fitz-Patrick, Jeannie Garthwaite, Priscilla Leder, Carmen Rumbaut and Annie Teehan.
