Florida Players to stage ‘The Children’s Hour’

October 3, 2011

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Players will produce its first production of the 2011-2012 season, “The Children’s Hour,” Oct. 13-16, in the Squitieri Black Box Theater, Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

“The Children’s Hour” is a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women. An angry student runs away from the school and to avoid being sent back she tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair. The accusation proceeds to destroy the women’s careers, relationships and lives.

The play will be directed by Sloane Henry, a third-year anthropology major at UF, and the production will be headed entirely by students, from actors to production members and everywhere in between.

The performance times and dates are: Oct. 13 at 8 p.m.; Oct. 14 at 8 p.m.; Oct. 15 at noon; and Oct. 16 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Admission is free. Tickets will be available online at www.floridaplayers.org under the “tickets” tab about a week before the performances start.