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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism , earlier associated with Chekhov , Ibsen , and Strindberg .
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The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill [3] in 1939. First published in 1946, [3] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. It has subsequently been adapted for the screen multiple ...
Eugene O'Neill's father, James O'Neill, was a promising actor in his youth, as was the father in the play. He also shared the stage with Edwin Booth , who is mentioned in the play. James O'Neill achieved commercial success in the title role of Dumas ' The Count of Monte Cristo , playing the title role about 6,000 times, but he was criticized ...
The Great God Brown is a play by Eugene O'Neill, first staged in 1926.O'Neill began writing notes for the play in 1922 – "Play of masks – removable – the man who really is and the mask he wears before the world" [1] – and wrote the play between January and March 1925. [2]
The Emperor Jones is a 1920 tragic play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.
This was the first time an O'Neill play was seen in the West End. The play starred Pauline Lord, who had been the original Anna Christie on Broadway. The play had a great reception. Time magazine wrote, "In London, the first night of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, with Pauline Lord in the title role, received a tremendous ovation. After the ...
Eugene O'Neill: Date premiered: 31 October ... Setting: The forecastle of the British tramp steamer Glencairn in 1915: In the Zone is a 1917 stage play by Eugene O ...