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Saturday, June 19, 2010

It's Gene To His Friends

DISCLAIMER:  WIKIPEDIA RESEARCH AHEAD.  I can't find my goddamned Brockett, it is absolutely nowhere in this house but then where did it go.  [confused ben body language]


So Eugene O'Neill.  An interesting guy.  His most lasting contribution to the American theatre was realism; stark realism, more often than not.  Stark because all but one (1) of his plays is a tragedy, the tragic* comedy Ah, Wilderness!, a piece largely remembered for Mark Chevalier's purple, brown, and skeletal set.  Sigh... so tragic.  His importance as a force of American theatre was reinforced during his lifetime as he won four (4!) Pulitzer Prizes, awarded for: