Anna Christie
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Licensing Note
This title is in the public domain. No performance license is required.
Description
A weary former prostitute seeks out her estranged sea captain father, hoping to find forgiveness from him, while hiding her past from a sailor she loves.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Press Quotes
“… a rich and salty play that grips the attention with the rise of the first curtain and holds it fiercely to the end … a play written with that abundant imagination, that fresh and venturesome mind and that sure instinct for the theatre which set this young author apart …” —Alexander Woollcott, Times
Author
Eugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was born in October 1888, in New York City. Widely considered America's foremost dramatist, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His masterpiece, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (produced posthumously in 1956), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including BEYOND THE HORIZON (1920), ANNA CHRISTIE (1922), STRANGE INTERLUDE (1928), AH! WILDERNESS (1933), and THE ICEMAN COMETH (1946). O'Neill passed away at the age of 65 in November 1953.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 12/1/2000 |
| Pages | 184 |
| ISBN | 9780881451818 |
