NEW YORK—“Women Without Men” is a remarkable play, springing as it did from the brain and pen of a young Irish actress named Hazel Ellis. Ellis trained at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and went on to perform in a variety of plays at the noted Gate Theatre in the 1930s. She wrote only two plays: “Portrait in Marble” and “Women Without Men,” which both attracted good critical and audience attention.
Now, New York’s Mint Theater Company, whose goal is to unearth and produce worthy forgotten plays of the past, is presenting “Women Without Men” with an all-female cast and crew. This decision is only fitting, as the play takes place entirely within the bounds of a sitting room in a fictitious private girls school in Dublin.
And it’s easy enough to believe that one is actually viewing events in such a site, as the remarkable set by Vicki R. Davis, enhanced by Joshua Yocom’s props, pulls one into the story.
