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Bezig met laden... Ah, Wilderness! (1933)door Eugene O'Neill
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An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Eugene O'Neill's only well-known comedy, Ah! Wilderness is a family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War. Richard Miller is deeply enamoured with his 'best girl', the pretty and pure Muriel. But when her cantankerous father finds out about their plans to spend Independence Day together, he demands that she write to him breaking off the whole thing. Richard is distraught, heartbroken, and seems about ready to knuckle under to strong liquor and fast women... Can his father Nat reach across the generation gap and bring his son back to the family - and Muriel? Eugene O'Neill's play Ah! Wilderness was premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre in October 1933. It was first staged in the UK at Westminster Theatre, London, in 1936. This edition includes a full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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When I think of Eugene O’Neill, I remember dark, Freudian plays about dysfunctional families and broken dreams. But Ah, Wilderness! is a nostalgic little romantic comedy that I was surprised to learn was the inspiration for the Andy Hardy series of teen comedies with Mickey Rooney. It is Happy Days for folks living through the Great Depression. Set on the fourth of July in 1906, it presents an idealized middle-class family in a Currier and Ives New England town. Richard is graduating from high school with revolutionary ideas from reading the scandalous works of George Bernard Shaw, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Omar Khayyam. Will his girl ever allow him to kiss her? Will he go off to Yale and become a doctor or a lawyer? Richard’s adolescent posturing is hard to take, but we put up with it because his good-humored father (played in a 1934 movie by Lionel Barrymore) treats it with condescending humor. It is as if O’Neill is forgiving himself for his foolish teenage dreams. (