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Past Work

Early Plays

February 2011–February 2013

The Wooster Group invited Richard Maxwell of New York City Players to direct Eugene O’Neill’s early “Glencairn” plays: Bound East for Cardiff (1914), The Long Voyage Home (1917), and The Moon of the Caribbees (1918). The resulting production, Early Plays, takes O’Neill’s tales of sailors on and off the ocean and explores themes of longing and eternity. Dark episodes showing the underside of turn-of-the-century maritime life – brawls, dances, and carousing — are threaded together with haunting melodies composed by Maxwell. The Early Plays company included performers and technical artists from The Wooster Group and New York City Players.

Media & Ephemera

Alex Delinois and Kevin Hurley in EARLY PLAYS. Photo: Michael Schmelling, 2012.
Keith Connolly, Kevin Hurley, Jim Fletcher, Brian Mendes, Ari Fliakos, Lakpa Bhutia, Enver Chakartash, and Alex Delinois in EARLY PLAYS. Photo: Michael Schmelling, 2012.
Brian Mendes and Ari Fliakos in EARLY PLAYS. Photo by Michael Schmelling, 2012.

Production History

Additional Credits

Thanks to Natalie Alvarez, Hai-Ting Chinn, Rosie Goldensohn, Frank Hetnschker, Felix Ivanov, Scott Shepherd, Jennifer Tipton, and Victoria Vazquez.

For Jim Strahs.

Selected Press