Eugene O'Neill

An American author.

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

It centers on Edmund and the rest of the Tyrone family, but it’s really an autobiographical account of the dysfunction of O’Neill’s own family, set on one day in August 1912. The father is a miserly actor, while the mother is a morphine addict, and the brother is a drunk; they argue and cut each other down throughout the play.

O’Neill wrote it fifteen years earlier than 1956 and presented the manuscript to his third wife with instructions that it not be produced until 25 years after his death, but it was actually produced three years after he died.

Mourning Becomes Electra

Really a trilogy, consisting of “Homecoming”, “The Hunted”, and “The Haunted”. Though it is set in post-Civil War New England, O’Neill used Aeschylus’s tragedy The Orestesia as the basis for the plot. Lavinia Mannon desires revenge against her mother, Christine, who with the help of her lover Adam Brant has poisoned Lavinia’s father Ezra; Lavinia persuades her brother Orin to kill Brant. A distressed Christine commits suicide, and, after Orin and Lavinia flee to the South Seas. Orin cannot stand the guilt and kills himself as well, leaving Lavinia in the house alone.

The Iceman Cometh

A portrait of drunkenness and hopeless dreams. Regular patrons of the End of the Line Café anticipate the annual arrival of Theodore “Hickey” Hickman, but in 1912 he returns to them sober. After the patrons reveal their “pipe dreams,” Hickey implores them to give up those dreams and lead productive lives. The “Iceman” is supposed to represent the “death” found in reality.

Ah, Wilderness

July 4, 1906. adolescent Tommy Miller in adult world

All God’s Chillun Got Wings

Ella Downey marries lawyer Jim Harris. becomes racist to feel superior

Anna Chrisitie

Christopher Christopherson, a Swedish-American barge captain, sends daughter Anna Chrisitie to St. Paul where she becomes a prostitute. she loves Mat Burke

Beyond the Horizon

brothers Robert and Andrew Mayo love same woman

Desire Under the Elms

Eben Cabot lives with his brothers Simeon and Peter, and his father Ephraim. Ephraim brings home a new wife, Abbie Putnam. The brothers leave for the gold rush. Eben believes his mother’s ghost approves, so he has an affair and eventually a son with Abby. Abby conspires to get the farm, and freaks out after Eben discovers the plan. Abby kills the baby to win back Eben. Eben and Abby are arrested for the baby’s death, and as the sheriff arrests them, he says he wished he owned the farm

Emperor Jones

Brutus jones, a former Pullman porter, sets himself up as a West Indian island dictator but is killed in revolt

The Great God Brown

successful businessman takes the mask of artist Dion Anthony

Lazarus Laughed

Lazarus preaches new religion of laughter after being raised by Jesus. Caligula stabs Lazarus

Strange Interlude

Nina Leed’s fiance dies in WWI. she marries Sam Evans but aborts their child but has baby from affair with Dr. Darrell

The Hairy Ape

ship stoker Yank rejected by IWW and crushed by gorilla at NYC zoo

Marco Millions

Kublai Khan’s daughter loves Marco Polo but he only wants money

A Moon for the Misbegotten

unfulfilled love of alcoholic and farm woman