A thoroughly modern heroine in ‘Strange Interlude’

Published March 27, 2012 4:00am ET



Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Strange Interlude,” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, may not be familiar to most theatergoers, as it is not often performed. Written in 1928, it is magnificent and definitive O’Neill, full of the poetry long associated with America’s first major dramatist. Yet it contains themes and stylistic innovations that pose insurmountable challenges to many directors.

 

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