The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill
Volume 1
Conceived and directed by Christopher Loar
Featuring Christopher Loar, Cara Francis, Danny Burnam, Brendan Donaldson, Connor Kalista, Jacquelyn Landgraf, Erica Livingston and Lauren Sharpe
Once confined only to heated discussions amongst doctoral students, the New York Neo-Futurists unleash O’Neill’s stage directions from their dissertation prison, transforming O’Neill’s eloquent yet obsessive and often controlling stage directions into rip-roaring physical comedy.
Now a Broadway mainstay, Eugene O’Neill was once considered an experimental, downtown playwright. His plays defied the melodramatic conventions of the day and much of his work premiered with the Provincetown Players on MacDougall Street.
THE COMPLETE AND CONDENSED STAGE DIRECTIONS OF EUGENE O’NEILL, VOLUME 1 was a New York Times Critic’s Pick, a Time Out NY Critic’s Pick, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production, and received five NYIT Award nominations for Sound Design, Choreography, Best Director, Ensemble and Performance Art.
“An impish illustration of how lively entertainment can be created from theatrical spare parts.” -The New York Times