Trifles - A One Act Play

One act play. The County Attorney and Sheriff have come to the house to look for evidence and are joined by the farmer who lives next door, Mr. Hale, who’d found the body. The Sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Peters, has been brought along to retrieve some of the woman’s things, and the farmer’s wife, Mrs. Hale, joins her as they wait for the men who are searching upstairs. As they sit observing the apartment, the women arrive at their own theories about what happened, and they discern the woman’s motive for murder as they see clues (trifles) the men overlook.