Synopsis

In Days to Come Lillian Hellman treats of a strike in a small mid-western town. In the center stands a well-meaning factory owner driven to harsh measures by economic necessity and the stronger wills of those who surround him. Before he can understand what he has done, trickery and violence engulf the town, strikebreakers do their mischief, disaster awaits those on both sides of the struggle. Hellman, with great dramatic vigor, builds up the action of her play in terms of its social meaning; then, with added insight, carries her story beyond its crisis to a personal and moral settling of accounts, and a final revelation of character.