Desire Under the Elms
From: Wednesday, 3rd October 2012
To: Saturday, 10 November 2012
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Synopsis
When Ephraim Cabot brings his young bride Abbie home to their remote New England farm, he little foresees the turmoil that her arrival will bring his family. Ephraim's youngest son at first loathes the newcomer, but when hatred gives way to lust, the resulting conflict threatens to rock the peaceful farm to its core.
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Michael Coveney - 9 October 2012
Desire under what elms, exactly? Eugene O'Neill's 1924 stage directions specify two enormous trees that brood obsessively over the mid-19th century New England farmhouse "like exhausted women resting their sagging breasts and hair and hands on its roof."
This tragic atmosphere of brooding inevitability is expressed more abstractly in Ian MacNeil's design and James Farncombe's lighting: Ephraim Cabot's farmhouse moves on trucks, changes shape and angles, bathed in a sickly green wash as the tragedy unfolds.
75-year-old Ephraim ([Finbar Lynch) has a new wife, Abbie Putnam (Denise Gough), who falls in love with his third son, Eben (Morgan Watkins). The first of O’Neill’s major “Greek” plays, this triangle echoes that of Theseus, Phaedra and Hippolytus in Euripides and Racine. But there’s also a child.
It’s an extraordinary coincidence that Noël Coward was appearing in his own Oedipal comedy of...
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jacqui ratcliffe - 8 November 2012:
i found it rather predictable and stodgy but some clever elements- but typically Eugene o'neill with no chee and plenty of father hating-- think I've had my share of Mr O'Neill now-perhaps if i found Long's Day's Journey Into Night (with the wonderful David Suchet) so over bearing then maybe it's me ...
Cast
Morgan Watkins (Eben Cabot)
Finbar Lynch (Ephraim)
Denise Gough (Abbie Putnam)
Creative
Eugene O'Neill (Author)
Lyric Hammersmith (Producer)
Sean Holmes (Director)
Ian MacNeil (Design)
James Farncombe (Lighting)
Christopher Shutt (Sound)
Hyemi Shin (Costume)
Mikel Murfi (movement) (Director)
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