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Desire Under the Elms
by Eugene O'Neill
January 21 - February 20, 2000
directed by Walter Dallas
Co-produced with Philadelphia's Freedom Theatre
Vehement family dissension has enveloped the Cabot farm for years. When young Eben Cabot is forced to compete with his new stepmother, Abbie, for impending possession of the family farm, the discord intensifies. Then Eben's ardent loathing for Abbie unexpectedly turns to heated passion and love. Doomed from the beginning, not even the serene beauty and peace of the land can calm the storm that surrounds Eben and Abbie's tortured affair.
Co-produced with Philadelphia's Freedom Theatre (one of the leading professional African-American theatres in the country) Desire Under the Elms will be directed by Freedom's Artistic Director, Walter Dallas, and will move to Philadelphia following its Chicago run. Mr. Dallas transports the action of the play from New England in 1850 to 1930's Georgia for a Southern and multicultural exploration of O'Neill's classic. |
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