![]() ![]() Hellman’s play takes place in the home of Fanny Farrelly and, initially, it seems to be a comedy. But, taking its title from a song about the defenders of German patriotism, “Die Wacht am Rhein,” “Watch on the Rhine” is a timely choice for the Guthrie, with its setting in a world on the brink of turmoil. ![]() It’s not Hellman’s best-known play - that’s “The Little Foxes,” which became a classic Bette Davis movie (Davis also starred in the film version of “Watch on the Rhine”). That changes Saturday, with the first preview performance of “Watch on the Rhine” (the play officially opens Oct. ![]() Lillian Hellman, in the mid-1930s, around the time that she wrote her first play, “The Children’s Hour,” and that Dashiell Hammett published “The Thin Man,” whose Nora Charles was based on Hellman. When Guthrie Theater announced its 2017-18 season last spring, the biggest surprise may have been the news that the theater had never produced a play by Lillian Hellman. ![]()
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