The Climbers

“Everybody was there!” Mrs. Hunter says after her husband’s funeral—before asking for tea and taking a third sandwich.

On Fifth Avenue, beneath the drawn shades of a richly furnished New York drawing-room, the Hunter family returns from the burial to a house full of flowers, camp-chairs, and social afterthoughts. In Clyde Fitch’s 1901 play, a newly widowed mother and her three daughters must reckon with grief, money, and the rules of fashionable society: Mrs. Hunter frets over appearances, Clara over a lost season, while the sincere Blanche and quiet Jessica see the day rather differently. Their father’s death has rearranged more than the furniture, and every condolence seems to carry its own calculation. Who is climbing, and what will it cost the family?

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