Strange Interlude | Excerpt in Eugene O’Neill
In the following essay excerpt, Gassner discusses the staging of and the response to O’Neill’s Strange Interlude.
Fortunately, O’Neill had started a return to modified realism and interest in character-drama some half a dozen years earlier with Strange Interlude, which became a great Theatre Guild success in the year 1928. Instead of dealing with metaphysical content and struggles over faith, O’Neill concerned himself here with character dissection and inner conflict. Whatever means he adopted in this play, his schematizations and his recourse to the Elizabethan device of the ‘‘aside’’ on a scale never before attempted on the stage, served the author’s sole objective of...
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