Category: Eugene O’Neill

I always try to keep my knowledge of the Performing Arts and the creators expanding to augment my vision and knowledge to teach my students with insights that only Knowledge can give me. So, here are some of my recent excursions and a brief response. BY WOMEN POSSESSED: A LIFE OF EUGENE O’NEILL By Arthur and Barbara Gelb (2016) The Gelb’s, husband and wife, spent a great deal of their creative energies researching and writing investigations into the genius and life of American playwright, Eugene O’Neill.They have written several books on O’Neill and some of the other people of the…

  Belvoir presents STRANGE INTERLUDE by Simon Stone after Eugene O’Neill at the Upstairs Belvoir St Theatre. This STRANGE INTERLUDE is a new Australian play by Simon Stone after the Eugene O’Neill original, written in 1927, presented on Broadway in 1928 by the Theatre Guild at the John Golden Theatre. This play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1928. In preparing for the performance of this new play I read the original by Eugene O’Neill. I had read it was once before, many years ago, but barely remembered it, except for the impression that the leading role, that…

    Sydney Theatre Company in association with Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland present LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O’Neill at the Sydney Theatre. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O’Neill is claimed, by some, to be the great American play, and certainly from my engagement with this play many times in the theatre and in the cinematic form with Katherine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson (reduced as it is), the affect has always inclined me to think so. This long naturalistic work winding through one day into the night with this Irish-American family, the Tyrone’s, in late summer,…