The Autumn Garden is a 1951 play by Lillian Hellman. The play is set in September 1949 in a summer home in a resort on the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles from New Orleans. The play is a study of the defeats disappointments and diminished expectations of people reaching middle age. For inspiration Hellman drew on her memories of her time in her aunts’ boardinghouse.
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