". These more recent productions have been in general favorably received, not the least because of the performance in all of them of Lauren Flanigan as Christine Mannon. The Florida Grand Opera staged it in November 2013 in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Mourning Becomes Electra (opera) Mourning Becomes Electra is an opera in 3 acts by composer Marvin David Levy. The work uses an English language libretto by Henry W. Butler after the play of the same name by Eugene O'Neill. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on March 17, 1967 with Zubin Mehta conducting. Mihalis"
"successes, including ""The Emperor Jones"", ""Anna Christie"" (Pulitzer Prize 1922), ""Desire Under the Elms"" (1924), ""Strange Interlude"" (Pulitzer Prize 1928), ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" (1931), ""The Iceman Cometh"" (1939) and his only well-known comedy, ""Ah, Wilderness!"". After his death, his magnum opus and masterwork ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" was published and is often regarded to be one of the finest American plays of the 20th century. The economic crisis of the Great Depression led to the creation of the Federal Theatre Project (1935–39), a New Deal program which funded theatre and other live artistic performances throughout the country. National director"
"play ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"", which O'Neill had instructed his publisher to withhold until 25 years after his death. The play was awarded the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and is O'Neill's best known work. A resident of the Valley Nursing Home in Westwood, New Jersey, Monterey died there on November 18, 1970. Carlotta Monterey Carlotta Monterey (born Hazel Neilson Taasinge; December 28, 1888 – November 18, 1970) was an American stage and film actress. She was the third and final wife of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Carlotta Monterey was born Hazel Neilson Taasinge on December 28, 1888, in San"
"Marvin David Levy Marvin David Levy (August 2, 1932 – February 9, 2015) was an American composer, best known for his opera ""Mourning Becomes Electra"". ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" was given its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967. Although deemed a failure at the time, the work was revived in 1998 in a revised version by the composer to a triumphant success at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The New York City Opera and the Seattle Opera staged the work in 2003, and the Florida Grand Opera staged the opera in 2013. A disc featuring ""Canto de los Marranos"""
"Electra becomes Lavinia, Aegisthus becomes Adam Brant, etc. As a Greek tragedy made modern, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, and even a group of townspeople who function as a kind of Greek chorus. Though fate alone guides characters' actions in Greek tragedies, O'Neill's characters have motivations grounded in 1930s-era psychological theory as well. The play can easily be read from a Freudian perspective, paying attention to various characters' Oedipus complexes and Electra complexes. ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" is divided into three plays with themes that correspond to the ""Oresteia"" trilogy. Much like Aeschylus' plays ""Agamemnon"", ""The Libation"
"Butterfly"", ""Spring Awakening"", and ""The Book of Mormon"". The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship ""Glencairn""—filmed together as ""The Long Voyage Home"": Other one-act plays include: Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the"
"later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. Increasing alcohol and drug dependence inhibited his creative expression. His drama ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" and Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"". Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Thomas"
"Henry James novella ""The Aspern Papers"" at the Queen's Theatre in 1959. Michael Redgrave Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author. He received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" (1947), as well as two BAFTA Award for Best British Actor nominations for his performances in ""The Night My Number Came Up"" (1955) and ""Time Without Pity"" (1957). At the 4th Cannes Film Festival, he won Best Actor for his performance in ""The Browning Version"" (1951). Redgrave"
"bulk of his stage work in Seattle. Tighe played Mick Dowd, a gravedigger, in Martin McDonagh's ""A Skull in Connemara"" at ACT Theatre in Seattle in 2000. Six months later, the production moved to New York, where it played at the Roundabout Theatre Company and Gramercy Theatre. He played Brigadier General Ezra Mannon in ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" and the play was initially performed at the ACT Theatre with Jane Alexander in 2001. The play was staged later in 2001 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut with Tighe and Alexander in the cast. Tighe worked with his daughter,"
"interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. In 1956 Carlotta arranged for his autobiographical play ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" to be published, although his written instructions had stipulated that it not be made public until 25 years after his death. It was produced on stage to tremendous critical acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. This last play is widely considered to be his finest. Other posthumously-published works include ""A Touch of the Poet"" (1958) and ""More Stately Mansions"" (1967). In 1967, the United States Postal Service honored O'Neill with a Prominent Americans series"
"produced for and shown on PBS, which starred Bruce Davison, Roberta Maxwell and Joan Hackett. It was well received by the critics, Joan Hackett in particular being highly praised for her portrayal of Christine. There are literary readings that classify ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" in the naturalism movement. This is based on O'Neill's focus on violent emotional states of men to emphasize the subconscious and inner spiritual forces as well as man's inability to escape the cyclical pattern and outcomes of human action. Like the Oresteia, the play explored the theme of revenge, where the crime of the past determine the"
"Olivia Bonelli Olivia Bonelli - soprano, 1920-1990. Her career covered a span of almost 30 years, from the late 1940s through the 1970s. While short of attaining ""super-star"" status, she nevertheless enjoyed a popular, steady and accomplished vocal career. She went from a small town choir (Troy, New York) to become a soloist at New York's Radio City Music Hall, to several of the USA's major opera companies, to a debut at New York City Opera,(1956–1964) to the Metropolitan Opera, for a special reading performance of Marvin David Levy's, ""Mourning Becomes Electra."" Along the way, she spent a year traveling"
"(""Song of the Marranos"") and excerpts from ""Shir Shel Moshe"" (""Song of Moses"") was issued as part of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music by Naxos in 2004. The Passaic, New Jersey-born Levy died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 9, 2015, aged 82. Marvin David Levy Marvin David Levy (August 2, 1932 – February 9, 2015) was an American composer, best known for his opera ""Mourning Becomes Electra"". ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" was given its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967. Although deemed a failure at the time, the work was revived in 1998 in a revised"
"by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama. A modern example is ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" by Eugene O'Neill (1956). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's ""Poetics"" (c. 335 BCE)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The use of ""drama"" in the narrow sense to designate a specific ""type"" of play dates from the 19th century. Drama in this sense refers to a play that is ""neither"" a comedy nor a tragedy—for example, Zola's ""Thérèse Raquin"" (1873) or Chekhov's"
"Michael Redgrave Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager, and author. He received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" (1947), as well as two BAFTA Award for Best British Actor nominations for his performances in ""The Night My Number Came Up"" (1955) and ""Time Without Pity"" (1957). At the 4th Cannes Film Festival, he won Best Actor for his performance in ""The Browning Version"" (1951). Redgrave was born in Bristol, England, the son of the silent film actor"
"Florence Eldridge Florence Eldridge (born Florence McKechnie, September 5, 1901, in Brooklyn, New York - August 1, 1988, in Long Beach, California) was an American actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in Play in 1957 for her performance in ""Long Day's Journey into Night"". The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. McKechnie, Eldridge was born Florence McKechnie in Brooklyn. She attended public schools, including P.S. 85 and Girls' High School. Eldridge made her Broadway debut at age 17 as a chorus member of ""Rock-a-Bye Baby"" at the Astor Theatre. The reference book ""American"
"Bearers"" and ""The Eumenides,"" these three plays by O'Neil are titled ""Homecoming"", ""The Hunted"", and ""The Haunted"". However, these plays are normally not produced individually, but only as part of the larger trilogy. Each of these plays contains four to five acts, with only the first act of ""The Haunted"" being divided into actual scenes, and so ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" is extraordinarily lengthy for a drama. In production, it is often cut down. Also, because of the large cast size, it is not performed as often as some of O'Neill's other major plays. Act I It is late spring in"
"include ""Marat/Sade"" by Peter Weiss, ""Bohemian Lights"" by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" by Eugene O'Neill, ""Cocinando con Elisa"" by , ""New York"" by , and ""Marathon"" by . Villanueva Cosse Villanueva Félix Cosse Vega (born 9 November 1933) is a Uruguayan actor, theater director, and writer who has developed a distinguished career in his country and internationally, especially in Argentina, where he has lived since 1973. Villanueva Cosse is the father of Carolina Cosse, the current head of the . He began his theatrical training at the in Montevideo in 1953, continued his studies at the"
"revival of Tennessee Williams' ""Orpheus Descending"" at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Michael Billington, reviewing for ""The Guardian"", described her performance as ""an exemplary study of an immigrant woman who has acquired a patina of resilient toughness but who slowly acknowledges her sensuality."" At the National Theatre in November 2003 she again won praise playing Christine Mannon (""defiantly cool, camp and skittish"", ""Evening Standard""; ""glows with mature sexual allure"", ""Daily Telegraph"") in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" directed by Howard Davies. ""This production was one of the best experiences of my professional life, The play was four"
"He also claims that their influence went beyond just drama and applies to literature in general, citing Milton and the Romantics. Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), a trilogy of three plays set in America after the Civil War, is modeled after the ""Oresteia"". Prior to writing his acclaimed trilogy, O'Neill had been developing a play about Aeschylus himself, and he noted that Aeschylus ""so changed the system of the tragic stage that he has more claim than anyone else to be regarded as the founder (Father) of Tragedy."" During his presidential campaign in 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy quoted"
"He brought her to the theater with him, where she sat in his dressing room in a drug-induced stupor. Early in 1914, Ella went through a cure, and this time remained free for the rest of her life. In April, 1919, she underwent a mastectomy for breast cancer. When her husband died in August 1920, Ella handled his financial affairs, selling their cottage in New London, Connecticut, which was the setting for Long Day's Journey Into Night. While on a trip to California with her son Jamie, Ella took ill and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She died on"
"had previously been rendered in tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in the 5th century BC. With many anachronistic changes, including the role of the bourgeois couple as a burlesque reflection of the tragic couple, Elektra is another example of the timelessness of the tragedy. Written in 1937, it would in effect be a ""bourgeois tragedy"", according to Jean Giraudoux himself. This is the main theme of the play. Electra comes from the Greek ""Elektra"" which means ""light"". Electra is there to shed light on the events, to illuminate the truth. Thanks to her presence, many characters will reveal ""their"""
"Chipping as Simeon Cabot. Lyric Hammersmith (2012) – Directed by Sean Holmes and designed by Ian MacNeil, starring Morgan Watkins as Eben Cabot, Denise Gough as Anna Putnam and Finbar Lynch as Ephraim Cabot. This play was adapted by Balwant Gargi (under the name ""Balde Tibbe"") in Punjabi, Department of Drama and Dramatics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, as the second—year final production of 2015. Held on 26 November 2016. Direction: Reza Arif. Desire Under the Elms Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 play written by Eugene O'Neill. Like ""Mourning Becomes Electra"", ""Desire Under the Elms"" signifies an attempt by"
"Mrs. M. Platt of St. Louis and Edward D. White, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. O'Neill was buried in St. Mary's cemetery. James O'Neill later became the model for James Tyrone, the frugal, mercurial, unseeing father character in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous autobiographical play ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"", which tells the story of the Tyrone family, which closely resembles the O'Neill family. James O'Neill (actor) James O'Neill (November 15, 1847 – August 10, 1920) was an Irish-American theatre actor and the father of the American playwright Eugene O'Neill. James O'Neill was born on November 15, 1846 in"
"herself to death by conjuring the shade of her dead mother, an opera singer. Numerous stage and film adaptations have been made, usually titled ""Camille"" or ""The Lady of the Camellias"" in English-language versions, and more loosely, as the 2001 film ""Moulin Rouge!"", where Satine dies of tuberculosis. The real life Paris courtesan Marie Duplessis, the historical Lady of the Camellias, died of the disease at age 23. A variety of plays have featured the theme of a character dying of tuberculosis. This includes Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", where the protagonist, Edmund, is diagnosed with tuberculosis at"
"Bond's ""The Sea"", and ""Marguerite"", a musical based on ""La Dame aux Camélias"", with music by Michel Legrand and book by Alain Boublil He directed the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" with Jessica Lange at the American Airlines Theatre in 2016. The production won two 2016 Tony Awards, including Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. His acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre productions of ""Platonov"", ""Ivanov"" and ""The Seagull"" by Anton Chekhov - in a new version by David Hare - played at the National Theatre, London, in"
"pioneering modern playwright who wrote plays noted for their exploration and questioning of nationalism, identity, spiritualism and material greed. His plays are written in Bengali and include ""Chitra"" (""Chitrangada"", 1892), ""The King of the Dark Chamber"" (""Raja"", 1910), ""The Post Office"" (""Dakghar"", 1913), and ""Red Oleander"" (""Raktakarabi"", 1924). There are references to theatrical entertainments in China as early as 1500 BC during the Shang Dynasty; they often involved music, clowning and acrobatic displays. During the Han Dynasty, shadow puppetry first emerged as a recognized form of theatre in China. There were two distinct forms of shadow puppetry, Cantonese southern and"
"from 1960 to 1986. From 1962 to 1967, collaborating with the writer Horst Lommer, Beauvais directed a popular series of films for NDR. Over the course of his career, Beauvais created a prolific and wide-ranging body of work including comedies, satires, crime films, dramas, and science fiction films. Beauvais adapted for television literary works by writers including Arthur Schnitzler, Anton Chekhov, and Joseph Roth, and directed Eugene O'Neill's ""Trauer muss Elektra tragen"" (""Mourning Becomes Electra""), starring Peter Pasetti. He also adapted and filmed works by contemporary writers including Siegfried Lenz, Karin Struck, Adolf Muschg, and Martin Walser, and original teleplays"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"
"Noël Coward Theatre in the West End in 2010. Trevor White (actor) Trevor Alan White (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actor who has worked in theatre, film, television and radio since 1994, based in London, England since 2001. He starred in the West End hit ""A Long Day's Journey Into Night"" by Eugene O'Neill with David Suchet, Laurie Metcalf and Kyle Soller. It was on at the Apollo Theatre until 18 August 2012. White was born in 1970 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Alan and Lamorna White. In 1992, White graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Queen's"
"and sister produces a series of brilliant scenes which display Electra's heroic resolution under constant attack."" Of the titular character, Edith Hall also wrote, ""Sophocles certainly found an effective dramatic vehicle in this remarkable figure, driven by deprivation and cruelty into near-psychotic extremes of behavior; no other character in his extant dramas dominates the stage to such an extent."" L.A. Post noted that the play was ""unique among Greek tragedies for its emphasis on action."" Electra (Sophocles play) Electra or Elektra (, ""Ēlektra"") is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the"
"took over the running of the theatre and for ten years produced a wide range of plays, winning a reputation as a 'pocket national theatre'. In 1946 Clunes teamed with author Peter Elstob to raise £20,000, which eventually put the theatre on a sound financial footing. Ronnie Barker made his West End début at the production of ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" at the Arts Theatre in 1955 which was directed by Sir Peter Hall, with whom Barker had worked at the Oxford Playhouse. Barker remained a West End actor for some years, appearing in numerous plays between 1955 and 1968. These"
"the 1920s and 1930s, with the works of Eugene O'Neill, who won four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize. In the middle of the 20th century, American drama was dominated by the work of playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, as well as by the maturation of the American musical, which had found a way to integrate script, music and dance in such works as ""Oklahoma!"" and ""West Side Story"". Later American playwrights of importance include Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, August Wilson and Tony Kushner. Depression era literature was blunt and direct in its social criticism. John Steinbeck"