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A character study of a young woman who falls in love and her struggle to deserve the love she inspires.... Read more

Anna Christie. A character study of a young woman who falls in love and her struggle to deserve the love she inspires. (8 men, 2 women, plus a few extras).

The Emperor Jones. (3 men, 1 woman, spirits, witches, women, soldiers, guards, etc, non-speaking parts used in most scenes).

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A woman, while preparing breakfast for her husband (heard off-stage), complains of her struggles to make ends meet. The husband, once considered a desirable catch, has steadily degenerated until he is no longer good for anything. When his wife has said everything hateful and bitter that is in her, she subsides into silence. A moment later we know that the desperate man in the next room has just cut his throat.... Read more

Winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

THE STORY: The introspective and sensitive Robert falls in love with Ruth, who is engaged to his brother, Andrew; she marries Robert, and Andrew goes to sea. Ruth later discovers that her marriage has been a mistake and that she is still in love with Andrew. Three years pass, and Robert, sick and disillusioned, fails to make a go of the farm. Andrew returns, but brings with him only disillusion to Ruth and Robert. The latter, who yearn... Read more

On a "foggy night midway on the voyage between New York and Cardiff," Sailor Yank lies dying in his bunk while the others exchange yarns and reminiscences. Yank takes a turn for the worse and quietly rambles on, wishing he had never gone to sea.... Read more

Desire Under the Elms. (4 men, 1 woman.)

Mourning Becomes Electra. The individual plays comprising the trilogy are: Homecoming, which calls for 7 men, 2 women; The Hunted, which calls for 7 men, 5 women; and The Haunted, which calls for 5 men, 5 women. The action of all three plays takes place... Read more

A murderer, pursued by the police, goes to see his dying mother and is captured.... Read more

Originally produced on Broadway with Jason Robards, and subsequently revived with productions starring Ben Gazzara, Al Pacino, and Forest Whitaker, respectively, HUGHIE was one of Eugene O’Neill’s last works. It was originally intended as part of a series of short plays, but it became the lone survivor when O'Neill destroyed the others. It did not receive its American premiere until twenty years after its composition and ten years after the author's death. HUGHIE is set in the ... Read more

Captain Keeney, a New England whaler, is dominated by an unconquerable pride. At the end of the two years' period his crew has signed up for, he has only a small part of his quota of "ile." The crew are mutinous and the Captain's wife is distracted from loneliness and anxiety. Only the prospect of her breakdown alters the Captain's determination to push on for the "ile," and seeing her condition he consents to sail her home; but the instant whales are sighted, he reverses his d... Read more

The scene, laid in the fo'c'sle, shows the sailors' bunks. Smitty, a sailor, is behaving suspiciously, and the others believe he is a spy. They take from his bunk a box, which they place in water, and open it. Smitty makes a desperate attempt to prevent them. He is lashed to his bunk and watches the men. The letters are read aloud, and we learn that they are from the girl to whom Smitty had once been engaged. She had broken the engagement because of Smitty's dissipated habits, ... Read more

As told by New York Journal-American: "In the space of one day, from morning until midnight, we are given the tortured family background which created the elusive yet magnificent talent of the author. The characters come to life with an almost frightening fidelity; it is doubtful if any work in the theatre has ever been written with such first-person authority. The proceedings take place in the living room of a summer house in 1912. In short order we learn that the fathe... Read more

Shows a group of sailors ashore in a waterfront dive. The crew have just been paid off. Olson, with savings in his pocket, refuses to drink. He has for years planned to go home, but every time he had money he squandered it. He is induced by a scheming couple to take a soft drink—which is drugged. He is then robbed, put ashore, then to another ship bound on a long voyage.... Read more

The individual plays comprising the trilogy are:

HOMECOMING, which calls for 7 men, 2 women

THE HUNTED, which calls for 7 men, 5 women

THE HAUNTED, which calls for 5 men, 5 women.

The action of all three plays takes place in exterior and interior settings at the Mannion residence.... Read more

Bound East for Cardiff. On a "foggy night midway on the voyage between New York and Cardiff," Sailor Yank lies dying in his bunk while the others exchange yarns and reminiscences. Yank takes a turn for the worse and quietly rambles on, wishing he had never gone to sea. (11 men.)

'Ile. Captain Keeney, a New England... Read more

As told by John Chapman in the New York Daily News: "The time of the play is 1828, and the setting is a tavern in a village near Boston. The tavern is owned by a tempestuous Irishman, Con Melody, who is as proud as he is ill-tempered. He had been born with wealth in a castle. He had been a major with the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Talavera. And now he is determined to show his pride and importance to the Yankee townsmen. He makes a great show of it, cantering ab... Read more

An old sea captain, who had years before committed a crime in connection with a hunt for treasure, goes mad when shadows from the past come to haunt him. The atmosphere of mystery is admirably established and wholly convincing.... Read more