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Susan Glaspell

Inheritors

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Inheritors

by Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

Inheritors, first performed at Provincetown (Mass.) Playhouse in 1921,
concerns the legacy of an idealistic farmer who wills his highly coveted
Midwest farmland to establish a college. Forty years later, when his
granddaughter stands up for the rights of Hindu nationals to protest at the
college, she jeopardizes funding for the college itself and sets herself against
her own uncle, president of the board of trustees. Ultimately, she defies her
family's wishes, and as a consequence is bound for prison herself. The play
was a stirring defense of free speech and an individual's ability to stand for
his or her own ideal during a time of aggressive anti-Communist politics in the

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Grandmother: Margaret Espaillat
Silas Morton, Emil Johnson: Anthony
Felix Fejevary the First: AllenJohns
Felix Fejevary the Second: Rick Cahill,

Robert Hoffman
Senator Lewis, Ira Morton: Nathanial W.C.
Higgins

Horace Fejevary: Chuck Williamson

Audio edited by Chuck Williamson
Total running time: 2:44:59

cover design: Kathryn Delaney

Old North Hall, University of Kansas, c. 1875

Doris: Elizabeth Klett
Fussie: Liz Bennington
Madeline Fejevary Morton:

Arielle Lipshaw
Isabel Fejevary: Linette Geisel
Harry: MichaelH-S
Holden: Delmar H. Dolbier
Narrator: Amanda Friday

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