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A PROVINCETOWN RETROSPECTIVE
A PROVINCETOWN RETROSPECTIVE
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 Literature.
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 Literature.
Before Breakfast by Eugene O'Neill
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Aria de Capo by Edna St Vincent-Millay
Performed by Rhys Greene & Byron La Due |
