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The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene O'Neill, first produced in 1946 and set in 1912 inside Harry Hope's run-down New York saloon. Its residents sustain themselves with "pipe dreams" about reforming their lives until traveling salesman Theodore Hickey arrives and urges them to abandon those illusio...
Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 tragedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill, set on an isolated New England farm owned by the severe patriarch Ephraim Cabot. The plot centers on Cabot's son Eben and his illicit relationship with Cabot's new wife, Abbie, amid disputes over inheritance, possession,...
The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill. It follows Yank, a physically powerful stoker on an ocean liner, whose confidence and sense of belonging collapse after a wealthy passenger reacts to him with horror. Through stylized dialogue, episodic scenes, and indu...
Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1931 dramatic trilogy by Eugene O'Neill that adapts the Oresteia of Aeschylus to a prosperous New England family after the American Civil War. Its three plays are Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted, and together they follow the Mannon family through adultery, murde...
Beyond the Horizon is a tragedy by Eugene O'Neill, first produced in 1920, about brothers Robert and Andrew Mayo and the consequences of exchanging their expected paths. Robert abandons his desire to travel and remains on the family farm, while the practically minded Andrew goes to sea. The resultin...
Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill, first produced in 1933. Set in a small Connecticut town on the Fourth of July in 1906, it follows teenage Richard Miller as romantic disappointment, political reading, and a night of drinking unsettle his affectionate middle-class fa...
Strange Interlude is a 1928 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill. Its nine acts follow Nina Leeds and the people around her across many years, examining desire, marriage, heredity, guilt, and the contrast between private thought and public conduct. The play is distinguished by extensive spoken...
