Subscribe to the 2012 Eugene O'Neill Season!
The 2012 Eugene O'Neill season will encompass works from his relatively
unknown Pulitzer Prize winning drama in Beyond the Horizon to one of the
crowning achievements in his vast canon with Long Day's Journey Into Night!
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Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel prize winner in literature. He is the author of over 50 plays.
His plays were among the first to introduce into American drama, techniques of realism earlier associated Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen,
and August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include speeches in the American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes
of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. His vast canon includes
such plays as Beyond the Horizon, A Touch of the Poet, Desire under the Elms, More Stately Mansions, The Iceman Cometh , The Hairy Ape,
Mourning becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!, A Long Day's Journey into Night, Anna Christie, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Several of these
works were not published or produced during O'Neill's lifetime. As New York drama critic George Jean Nathan noted, "O'Neill alone and single-handed waded
through the dismal swamplands of American drama, bleak, squashy, and oozing sticky goo, and alone and single-handed bore out of them the water lily that no
American had found there before him." Today, he is recognized not only as the first great American dramatist, but as one of the great dramatists of all time.
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