Machinal
Author(s):
Sophie Treadwell
Running time:
1h 50min approx
Age recommendation:
14+ years
"How can that be? A great sin—a mortal sin—for which I must die and go to hell—but it made me free! One moment I was free!"
From the outside, Helen Jones and her husband had a ‘happy marriage’. Until she murdered him.
Based on the true crime story of Ruth Snyder in 1928 that shook a nation, Sophie Treadwell’s seminal Machinal is a pulse-pounding journey of someone pushed to breaking point by the relentless machinery of life, expectation and convention.
