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Sunday January 22nd at 3:00pm and
The Athenaeum Theatre |
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Beyond the Horizon
Directed by guest director Louis Contey
Director Louis Contey was recently nominated for a Jeff Award for his direction of Frost/Nixon at Timeline Theatre Company where he is an Associate Artist. For Eclipse, he directed the 2005 production of Talley & Son. Mr. Contey has directed over 60 plays at various Chicago theatres. His credits include Awake and Sing, It's All True, Paradise Lost, Lillian, The General from America, Copenhagen and Pravda all for Timeline Theatre. He also worked extensively with Shattered Globe Theatre. He is a twelve time Jeff Nominee and has received seven Jeff Awards for direction. Ah, Wilderness!
Directed by ensemble member Steve Scott
Director Steve Scott is the Associate Producer of the Goodman Theatre where he has overseen more than 150 productions since 1987. He has directed numerous productions for various Chicago Theatre Companies. As an ensemble member at Eclipse, he most recently directed the Jeff Nominated production of After the Fall. Other Eclipse directing credits include Six Degrees of Separation, Plaza Suite, Boy Gets Girl, The Moonshot Tapes, Big Time, Lost in Yonkers, Childe Byron and The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. He will be directing the 2011 annual production of A Christmas Carol at the Goodman Theatre. |
Long Day's Journey into Night
Directed by Artistic Director Nathaniel Swift
Nathaniel Swift if the current Artistic Director for Eclipse Theatre Comapny where his directing credits include the Jeff Award Winning production of 2, Brutality of Fact, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, The Autumn Garden, and Resurrection Blues. He received a 2003 Jeff Award for his direction of 2 in addition to a Jeff Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010 for his performance in Blue Surge. The Playwright Scholar Series
As a subscriber, you'll also get to learn more about the life and work of Eugene O'Neill with free readings and events throughout the season. Details regarding our Playwright scholar series events will be announced in 2012. |
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Featuring select scenes from our 2012 season including
Beyond the Horizon, Ah Wilderness!, and Long Day's Journey into Night
Eclipse Theatre opens the 2012 Eugene O'Neill season with a rare revival of his very first full-length 1920 Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Beyond the Horizon. The story of two brothers: one a dreamer and the other a pragmatist, who share their love for the same woman. Their tale unfolds when the woman's rejection of one brother and her marriage to another set the stage for discontent and disillusionment. Originally produced on Broadway in 1920, O'Neill's first full-length play captures the powerful, perilous emotional currents swirling below the surface of everyday life. Jeff Award winning director Louis Contey returns to Eclipse to direct one of Eugene O'Neill's hidden gems.
The O'Neill season continues with his only lighthearted and comic play, Ah Wilderness!. Set in New England in the days of America's innocence, this affectionate comedy presents a young man's coming of age story during a summer in which he experiments with poetry, politics, wicked women and alcohol and succumbs to his first romantic crush. Ensemble member and Goodman Theatre Associate Producer, Steve Scott directs. 
The 2012 Eugene O'Neill season concludes with what is arguably his finest work and an American masterpiece. Considered to be an autobiographical piece which was published and produced posthumously, the story centers on the Tyrone family. James Tyrone, a semi-retired actor, is vain and miserly; his wife Mary feels worthless and retreats into a morphine-induced haze. Jamie, their older son, is a bitter alcoholic. James refuses to acknowledge the illness of his consumptive younger son, Edmund. As Mary sinks into hallucination and madness, father and sons confront each other in searing scenes that reveal their hidden motives and interdependence.