| Jitta's Atonement | |
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| Written by | George Bernard Shaw Siegfried Trebitsch |
| Date premiered | 1923 |
| Place premiered | Broadway |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | a woman must atone for her extramarital affair |
| Genre | tragi-comedy |
| Setting | Vienna |
Jitta's Atonement (1923) is an adaptation by George Bernard Shaw of the play Frau Gitta's Sühne by Siegfried Trebitsch. It is about a woman who has to atone to her husband for having an affair with his best friend. The atonement of both Jitta and other characters take unexpected forms. Shaw dramatically rewrote the last part of the play, giving it a more characteristically Shavian tone.