"Machinal" by Sophie Treadwell

Directed by Karen Lordi-Kirkham and presented by the Department of Theatre & Dance and the Mermaid Players, Machinal (French for mechanical) is a modern-era tragedy of isolation leading to murder that was a major hit when it opened on Broadway in 1928. Author Sophie Treadwell said the play was about a young woman, ready, eager for life, for love but deadened, squeezed, crushed by the machine-like quality of the life surrounding her. Loosely based on the sensational 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Machinal is a classic of expressionistic theatre that rails against the increasingly mechanized, industrial and inhuman world in a remarkably contemporary way.

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• Dickinson College
• murder
• Yazmin Watkins
• Helen Snyder
• Dumbell murder