Githa Sowerby
Rutherford & Son was written in 1912 and is Githa Sowerby’s most celebrated play. Ahead of it’s time, the play challenges the role and expectations of women in the male dominated, industrial North of England. Rutherford is the owner of a glass works, an oppressive patriarch who, blind to his children’s hopes, has bullied and undermined them without questioning that one day they will take over the business.
This is the story of a family on the brink of collapse.
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Katherine Githa Sowerby was born in 1876 in Gateshead, England. Her first play, Rutherford & Son, originally performed in 1912, was an outstanding success. Credited as G.K. Sowerby, the playwright was assumed to be a man. When Sowerby's true identity was revealed, she became ...
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