At O’Neill’s Danville Residence, Tao House (National Historic Site)
The Eugene O’Neill Foundation’s 2024 Festival Presents:
A seasons of Sweeping Passions
Main Stage Production: MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
SEPTEMBER 14TH - 29TH
https://eugeneoneill.org/productions/festival/
ADRIAN DEANE LEADS A CAST OF 5 FROM DANVILLE TO NEW ROSS, IRELAND
Anna Christie1920
"I wanted to have the audience leave with a deep feeling of life flowing on, of the past which is never the past—but always the birth of the future.... It would have been so obvious and easy to have made my last act a tragic one.... It would not have been true. They would act in just the silly, immature compromising way that I have made them act... a bit tragically humorous in their vacillating weakness."
—O'Neill responding to critics
Lead actress Adrian Deane emphasized the protagonist's trajectory of self-discovery as central to themes and tone of the play.
"Anna is someone who is searching for perhaps the greatest thing someone can search for: more even than a father, another's love and a home where she belongs, Anna is searching for herself," Deane said. "At the end of this play she comes to know as if by better acquaintance that this 'Anna Christie' she used to call herself is an important part of her too -- someone she has grown from yes, but also someone who will always be a part of her and whom she will no longer hide or hide from."
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/new-ross-news/eugene-oneill-festival-will-take-place-in-new-ross-in-october/a497245237.html
Adrian Deane as Feste
At the Forest Meadows Amphitheatre at Dominican University of California:
TWELFTH NIGHT, directed by Bridgette Loriaux August 4 – September 3
Music, movement, and merriment rule the stage in this new imagining of Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece.
KALEIDOSCOPE TALKS – Pre-show Talks about the plays from a wide variety of perspectives, curated by Phillipa Kelley. See the schedule of speakers and their bios here.
From left to right: Craig Eychner | Terrance Smith | Adrian Deane | Bonnie DeChant
The Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House is proud to announce it will kick off 2022 with a production of O’Neill’s play Welded. Idealism, insecurities, and intrigues send the marriage of successful theatre couple Michael and Eleanor Cape spinning out of control in this rarely produced 1924 play. Welded comes from O’Neill’s highly experimental period. In his stage directions, he wrote that Michael and Eleanor should be illuminated by individual spotlights which O’Neill referred to as “auras of egoism.” This provocative stage direction was not followed in the original production nor subsequent productions. January’s production will seek to explore this lighting device and its ramifications on the other characters in the play and the audience.
Tickets HERE
The play Beyond the Horizon calls for a combination of outdoor and indoor scenes, which have traditionally been difficult to represent. Our production will be filmed to highlight the natural beauty and farm-like qualities of the Tao House property. Additionally, two live performances of the play will take place with seating at reduced capacity. These special live performances will utilize a combination of outdoor and indoor settings which require some minimal walking.
Beyond the Horizon Live: Sat., Sept. 25, 4:00 pm and Sun., Sept. 26, 4:00 pm
Beyond the Horizon, the Film: Sat., Oct. 2
Additional event details and tickets available soon.
The characters of Eugene O’Neill’s plays come to life in this series of short films celebrating the words of O’Neill, the history of Tao House and the natural beauty of the surrounding Las Trampas Regional Wilderness. Eugene O’Neill and his imagination lived at Tao House from 1937-1944. O’Neill’s characters sprang from his imagination, so his characters lived with him at Tao House as well. Maybe they never left…
Brindsley Miller is a lovesick and desperate sculptor. In the hopes to impress his fiancee's pompous father and a wealthy art dealer, Brindsley embellishes his apartment with furniture and objects d’art “borrowed” from the absent antique collector next-door. Suddenly, a fuse is blown, and the fussy neighbor returns home earlier than planned. Frantic attempts to return the items ensue, as unexpected guests, errant phone cords, and other snares get in the way of getting everything back before the light is restored.
PERFORMANCES
Preview Night - February 20 at 8:00pm
Fridays, February 21, 28 & March 6 at 8:00pm
Saturdays, February 22 & 29 & March 7 at 8:00pm
Sundays, February 23 & March 1 & 8 at 2:00pm
CREATIVE TEAM
Director - John Maio
Scenic Design - Giulio Perrone
Lighting Design - Allen Willner
Costume Design - Daisy Neske
Sound Design - Don Tieck
Cast: Damion Clark, Ron Cook, Alan Coyne, Adrian Deane, Bonnie DeChant, Marissa Ellison, Jim Rupp, Jim Woodbury
