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Proudly Presents
A PROVINCETOWN RETROSPECTIVE
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Take a walk down theatrical memory lane celebrating the emergence of American playwrights of 1919, Eugene O’Neill, Edna St Vincent Millay, Susan Glaspell and others. Join us for a free zoom performance of these two short pieces. O’Neill’s Before Breakfast alludes to the Washington Square artists in Greenwich village and the frustrations of a wife married to a writer. Millay’s short one act Aria de Capo asks the question why, we are by some mysterious power in our human nature, forced to distrust one another.

​Provincetown Players was a group that created the Provincetown Playhouse in New York, the first Off- Broadway theatre in history in Greenwich Village. The  Provincetown Playhouse staged the works of some of this country’s most well-known playwrights and talented actors, including Eugene O’Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edward Albee, Sam Shepherd, David Mamet,
The purpose was to provide a platform for American playwrights and new American plays. Eugene O’Neill, had his first plays staged with this group. O’Neill became the first American dramatist to regard the stage as a literary medium and he remains the only U.S. playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literatu

Before Breakfast by Eugene O'Neill
Performed by Dori Salois

Aria de Capo by Edna St Vincent-Millay
Performed by Rhys Greene & Byron La Due
 
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​​Point Loma Playhouse
3035 Talbot Street
Point Loma, CA 92106
Ph: 619-800-5497
Near the corner of Rosecrans Street
in the historic Point Loma Assembly
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      • The Frisch Approach >
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        • Dirty Acting by Peter Frisch
      • Improv or Die
      • Playwriting 101
      • Screenwriting Class
      • Stand-Up Comedy
      • Summer Shakes
      • 24 Experiment
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