EXCLUSIVE: Lillian Hellman’s 1934 play The Children’s Hour, set in an all-girls boarding school, is getting a shot at the small-screen with Anonymous Content and Bess Wohl adapting.The play was previously adapted as a feature film in 1961 starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner and Fay Bainter.Set in the 1930s, The Children’s Hour tells the story of two women who run an all-girls school in a fictional New England town and are falsely accused of having an ‘unnatural’ lesbian relationship by one of their students.
The allegation upends the women’s lives and destroys their careers and forces them to reckon with the true nature of their friendship.Wohl, who made her Broadway debut in 2019 with her play Grand Horizons and is
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