Best of
Plays

1931

Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms / Strange Interlude / Mourning Becomes Electra


Eugene O'Neill - 1931
    These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts.

Mourning Becomes Electra


Eugene O'Neill - 1931
    A returning victor, General Ezra Mannon (Agamemnon), is poisoned by his unfaithful wife Christine (Clytemnestra) and then avenged by his son Orin (Orestes) and daughter (Lavinia). With Orin's subsequent suicide, Lavinia (the Electra of the title) becomes a fatalistic recluse in the Mannon mansion.