Inheritors is a four-act play written by the American dramatist Susan Glaspell, first performed in 1921 (104 years ago) (1921).
The play concerns the legacy of an idealistic farmer who wills his highly coveted midwest farmland to the establishment of a college (Act I).
Ultimately, she defies her family's wishes, and as a consequence is bound for prison herself (Act IV).
[1] The play was a defense of free speech and an individual's ability to stand for his or her own ideal during a time of aggressive anti-Communist politics in the US.
[2] It was revived in New York City by Mirror Repertory in 1983 and Metropolitan Playhouse in 2005 and was also performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London in 1997.