May 4, 2007

Eugene O'Neill's America

By JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS

"I'm teaching a course on O'Neill at Sing Sing." Sing Sing? The notorious jail? Why would prisoners be interested in a playwright? "Every convict is convinced that he comes from a dysfunctional family. They all see themselves as victims of a loveless environment of indifference and deprivation."

So I was told by Stephen Kennedy Murphy, the recipient of a grant to direct readings of each and every one of O'Neill's works at Greenwich Village's Provincetown Playhouse, an institution

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