Early Plays
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 22, 2012
Closed Mar 11, 2012
Opened Feb 22, 2012
Closed Mar 11, 2012
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The Wooster Group, has invited Richard Maxwell of New York City Players to direct O'Neill's four Glencairn plays: Bound East for Cardiff (1914), In the Zone (1917), The Long Voyage Home (1917) and The Moon of the Caribbees (1918). Early Plays takes O'Neill's tales of sailors on and off the ocean as a base to explore themes of longing and eternity. Dark episodes showing the underside of turn-of-the-century maritime life--brawls, dances and carousing--are staged with a quotidian grace allowing these simple stories to resonate emotionally.
Elizabeth LeCompte, director of The Wooster Group, pinpointed Maxwell as the director to give these plays an inspired "remix," realizing O'Neill's beautifully romantic text in a sparse, modern, yet still mythic place.
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Two of New York's boldest theater companies -- The Wooster Group and New York City Players -- have teamed up for Early Plays, made up of a trio of one-acts by Eugene O'Neill that is now playing St. Ann's Warehouse. Richard Maxwell is at the helm of the production, but the stylized minimalism that characterizes his direction is only intermittently successful here.
The three O'Neill works presented are part of the playwright's "Glencairn" cycle, named after the steamship that is central to each play. The production opens with The Moon of the Caribees, which focuses on melancholy sailor Smitty (Kevin Hurley) who drinks to forget his lost love. Maxwell stages much of the piece in a static fash[...]