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The Children's Hour with Billy Liar My Practical work in April was for Option . It was a pre-war American feminist piece named "the children's hour" written by Lilly Hellman. It was written in 1934 but due to its controversial content was not performed until 1939. The piece is about an unruly young girl who spreads the rumour that the co-headmistresses at her private, all-girls school are engaging in a lesbian relationship; the townsfolk remove their daughters from the school and charge up a scandal. The scene that I will be performing does not contain much in the content aspect but concentrates more on the atmospheric part when Martha announces her love to Karen. My contribution to the performance was to play the part of Lily Mortar who, by refusing to go to court, is one of the main reasons that Karen and Martha are stuck in the situation that they are...

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