Theater - The Long Voyage Home

February 19–22, 1986

A collection of short plays by Eugene O'Neill

 

Production Staff

Director: Ronald Miller

Scene and Light Designer: Brian R. Jones '82

Costume Designer: Norma L. West

Stage Manager: Eric Hiser '86

Assistant Stage Manager: Greg Redding '88

 

Cast List

Larry Alcorn, Matthew J. Brown '88, Scott A. Eggers '86, Ryan S. Hartzog '88, Mark D. Hayes '88, David Manuel '87, Charles A. Montgomery Jr. '86, Linda Ostermeier, Alvin C. Schuh '88, David Schulz '88, Christopher M. Stephenson '87, Tracy Swaim '86, Ansley Valentine '90, Romona W. Zachary

 

Production Assistance

Lightboard Operator: Mike Keller '83

Master Electrician: Michael Belica '86

Soundboard Operator: Michael Beason '86

Sound Technicians: Michael Beason '86, Jay Baltisberger '89

Graphics: Laura Conners

Key Grip: James Amidon '87

Grip Crew: Mark Ratekin '88, Tyce Light '87, Fred Hegeman

 

Before the great American dramatist Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) began writing his towering full-length plays (including Desire under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, and others) he wrote a series of one-act pieces drawing heavily on his experiences as a seaman. The finest of his many one-act plays are the S.S. Glencairn series which includes: Bound East for Cardiff (1916), a vignette of a dying seaman; The Long Voyage Home (1917), in which the dreams of a sailor are destroyed when he is robbed and shanghaied; In the Zone, a tale of a sailor and his intimate secrets which are exposed when he is accused of being a saboteur; and The Moon of the Caribees (1918) which concerns a drunken spree in a Caribbean port. Film director John Ford made a film based on these plays under the title The Long Voyage Home.

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