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O'Neill (Unexpected)
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Great acting, Entertaining, Great writing, Absorbing, Intelligent
About the show
The Metropolitan Playhouse presents two early, rarely performed plays by Eugene O'Neill: 'Recklessness' and 'Now I Ask You.' More…
'Recklessness' tells the story of a husband who learns his wife is having an affair with the chauffeur, and sets out to exact his revenge. The light comedy 'Now I Ask You' addresses the intellectual elite's views on marriage and freedom at the dawn of the 20th century.
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MEMBERS SAY:
Great acting, Entertaining, Great writing, Absorbing, Intelligent
"While one piece, a comedy, drums up a few laughs, it’s the tragedy that packs the real power here...The plot of 'Reckless' is melodramatic, the ending blunt. But the intensity of the young writer is palpable...'Now I Ask You'...the tone is harmless, but there’s no getting around the fact that th...
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“‘O’Neill (Unexpected)’ lives up to its name and Metropolitan Playhouse’s
mission to explore the American theatrical heritage by ‘discovering where we
come from to better know who we are.’ While not in any way lost
masterpieces, ‘Recklessness’ and ‘Now I Ask You’ are not only stage-worthy b...
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“To analyze these plays - even in the moment as they’re being performed - is a bit of an exercise in hopeful hindsight bias. It is impossible to not search for the early dramatic strengths of a playwright who would develop into arguably the greatest in American history. Many of the constructs of ...
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"These two one-acts, directed by company artistic director Alex Roe with sly bemusement, were written some time before the playwright won the first Pulitzer Prize...The longer entry dates from 1916 and is unexpected not only because so much of the early, feeling-his-way O’Neill is rarely revived ...
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