Desire Under the Elms

Although less frequently staged than such later O’Neill classics as Long Day’s Journey Into Night and A Moon for the Misbegotten, this earlier work is no less masterful. Young Eben Cabot greedily eyes the family farm, while his father’s voluptuous new bride has her avaricious eye on the farm… and Eben. As the pair vies for the coveted plot of land, sexual tension and hatred intensify to explosive effect.