Eugene O’Neill – Cannonball Read 17

Spring Cleaning

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

The Lemming Condition by Alan Arkin

Trump and Populism by Michael Kazin

How Do We Look by Mary Beard

Family Life by Russel Banks

Last Train from Perdition by Robert McCammon

The Rule of St Benedict by St Benedict

Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss

April 4, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave “A young boy climbs a riverbank.” This tour memoir and more or less book of poetry opens up with the image above of a young boy climbing up a riverbank and feeling like he has a brush with a train passing close by. I was girding myself for the possibility that I had decided to read a book that Nick Cave write after the death of his son in a not impossibly similar situation. That would happen a […]

Spring Plays

Bump by Chiara Atik

Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

Speed the Plow by David Mamet

Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill

American Buffalo by David Mamet

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Bump Completely unrelated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPPA3Gv7RQ&ab_channel=SpankRock-Topic This more recent play begins with a few small moments in the life of a pregnancy. We start with a pregnancy message board specifically tied to “December Moms” based on their due dates, which the specific acknowledgement that some might have their babies in November, or January, or not at all, depending. From there, we move to our central players: Claudia is announcing her very early pregnancy to her parents. Her mom is excited, and her dad doesn’t initially understand what […]

O’Neill-o-rama

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill

Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill

The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill

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Long Day’s Journey into Night – 5/5 O’Neill wrote this play about 15 years before he died in 1953. It wasn’t published and produced until after he died, and it’s considered by many to be his masterpiece. That rings more or less true mostly because of the close ties to his own experiences, and for me, the way that the play feels more grounded than some of his other plays. He cast several of his plays against a framework of Greek tragedy, which like Greek […]

Plays – Random

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard

The Fever by Wallace Shawn

The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill

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Sorry, Wrong Number – 4/5 A short thriller written by Lucille Fletcher, and one that uses the recent technology (so to speak) to sell the suspense. A disabled woman waits at home for her husband to return from work. Becoming anxious, she calls his office and the lines get crossed and she hears a cryptic, but malicious conversation about a murder plot. The conspirators discuss some of the details of the plot which includes going to the apartment by the bridge. When the call reconnects, […]

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