Beyond the Horizon
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 15, 2012
Closed Apr 15, 2012
Opened Feb 15, 2012
Closed Apr 15, 2012
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Beyond the Horizon is a harrowing, heart-wrenching domestic tragedy, set on a farm in Massachusetts where two brothers, Robert, a dreamer and poet who longs to go to sea and seek the promise that lies beyond the horizon, and Andrew, a more practical man, whose desire extends no farther than the family farm, find themselves in love with their neighbor Ruth.
Just as Robert is about to depart, however, it becomes clear that Ruth loves him and not Andrew. So Robert stays at home to run the farm - a job for which he is entirely unsuited - and Andrew takes his place on the sailing ship to discover lands he never dreamt of. It is a decision with irrevocable and tragic consequences.
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As Eugene O'Neill advocates know well, his 1920 work Beyond the Horizon, now being presented by the Irish Repertory Theatre, is the play that both shook up American theater and which triggered a more mature approach to domestic dramatic writing. But it's hardly surprising that Ciaran O'Reilly's not entirely successful production impresses more as melodrama than as drama.
While reflecting O'Neill's passions and inconsolable beliefs in life's enduring hardships -- including his love of the sea and the six checkered years he spent on it -- his first full-length play also reveals the awkwardness of his structuring. It's a problem he never entirely overcame, but for which he later refined mi[...]