The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Volume 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays
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Opened Sep 12, 2011
Closed Oct 8, 2011
Opened Sep 12, 2011
Closed Oct 8, 2011
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Running Time:
1hr. 39min.
1hr. 39min.
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Now a Broadway mainstay, Eugene O'Neill was once considered an experimental, downtown playwright. His plays defied the melodramatic conventions of the day and much of his work premiered with the
Provincetown Players on MacDougall Street. The New York Neo-Futurists return O'Neill to his experimental roots with The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Volume 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays.
This first in a series chronicles O'Neill's early stage directions (1913-1917), and include two of his "sea plays" (including Bound East for
Cardiff) as well as more obscure early works such as his first play, the one-act A Wife for a Life, as well as his cynical comedy The Movie Man.
Once confined only to heated discussions amongst doctoral students, the New York Neo-Futurists unleash Eugene O'Neill's stage directions from their dissertation prison, transforming his eloquent yet obsessive and often controlling stage directions into rip-roaring physical comedy
(running under 100 minutes).
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RE:The Invested
This is a smart, stylish six-actor play, skillfully examining the minds and hearts of two key executives in the banking industry at the beginning of a national financial meltdown. CatherineChristina Haag aspires to be CFO at Metro Bank but is stymied by her superior, Enoch Thomas Hildreth who teases and tempts her with a potentially corruptive means to her desired end. Loyalty to her long-time clients--powerfully represented by Bill Cwikowski as Simon--is a complicating force throughout the 2+ hour performance. All the actors are outstanding. A sleek setting, attractive costumes, forceful occasional music and arresting visuals complement the seamless direction of Ron Canada. Playwright Sharyn Rothsteins work is Broadway quality performed on the Lower East Side at non-Broadway prices!
Reviewed by Fatu
on Tuesday, Sep 13th, 2011
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Anyone who has spent some time reading plays by Eugene O'Neill knows that the celebrated writer had a proclivity for detailed and often lengthy stage directions in his scripts. The New York Neo-Futurists are now poking gentle fun at this aspect of the playwright's works with the clever and amusing The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Volume 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays, now at the Kraine Theater.
As the subtitle indicates, the O'Neill works tackled here are not the playwright's most famous, but instead are plays with which the majority of audiences are unfamiliar. It starts off with O'Neill's 1913 play, A Wife for a Life, about an older man (Connor Kalista) and a young[...]