Word: neillã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...older brother was very much into Dostoevsky and was always pushing him onto me when I was a kid and making parallels between the literary characters and our own family members. The problem is, as I became obsessed with these family stories like O’Neill??€™s A Long Day’s Journey into Night, for example, or Terry Zwigoff’s documentary about Robert Crumb and his family, all the characters became blurred and sometimes it’s hard to remember if Smerdyakov really is my brother...
...have even more trouble finding an audience than dance or musical shows. Over 1,600 people saw this semester’s dance show, Against the Grain. Compare that to the approximately less than 600 people who saw Marcus Stern’s adaptation of Eugene O’Neill??€™s Great God Brown last semester. This despite a Crimson review which raved, “[Great God Brown] raises the bar for student theater so high that it is likely to be a while before another show approaches its level of utter excellence...
Granted, some of them are the real deal—obnoxious Bronx natives who sit back calmly after the A’s take a 2-0 lead because they know that Paul O’Neill??€™s selling his soul to the devil will pay off in the end. I can respect them...
...product of an alliance between the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) and professional director Marcus Stern (of the American Repertory Theater), Eugene O’Neill??€™s masterpiece surges to life with a vibrancy that both fills Loeb Mainstage and captures the audience in its first moments. Two friends, Billy (nervous, conservative Cary P. McClelland ’02) and Dion (manic, disheveled Alexis G. Burgess ’01), are as different as can be, but they share one thing: their love for Margaret (a ravishing Emily S. Knapp...
...against the internal struggle between the world of business and the creative impulse, The Great God Brown tackles everyday issues like sex, self-loathing and murder. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hysterically funny, the show remains true to the spirit of O’Neill??€™s exploration of humanity while providing an outlet for intensly imaginative artistic expression...