Join us at the Circa 21 Speakeasy for a screening of Jury of Her Peers during the Alternating Currents Festival.

The film "Jury of Her Peers" was inspired by one of Iowa’s most haunting early 20th-century true-crime cases: The still-unsolved axe murder of farmer John Hossack. The crime, and the complex social tensions surrounding it, first entered the public imagination through the reporting of Susan Glaspell, a Davenport-born journalist who later became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and a central figure in modern American drama.   Glaspell’s short play Trifles and subsequent short story "A Jury of Her Peers," both inspired by the Hossack case, remain among her most enduring works. Willam Rock wrote and directed "Jury of Her Peers" based on Glaspell's work. A short Q & A with the writer/director and producer will follow the screening.