Monday, October 3, 2011

Upcoming: A Celebration of Eugene O'Neil's Birthday, Sidetrack Productions at the Hyde Park Theatre,October 16


A general invitation received from Sidetrack Productions

(Michael Stuart said it's okay to pass it along!):


Eugene O'Neill by Al HirschfeldYou are invited to celebrate

Eugene O'Neill's 123rd Birthday

Sunday, October 16, 2011

at the Hyde Park Theatre,

511 W. 43rd Street near Guadalupe (click for map)

with a free (*) staged reading of

Hughie

done by Michael Stuart and Barry Miller at 5 p.m.,

followed by cake and carousing

(* donations gratefully accepted)

(if you RSVP to sidetrackmail@aol.com, we'll be sure to have enough cake!)

{This project is presented under the Actors Equity Members Project Code}

[illustration: Eugene O'Neill drawn by Al Hirshfeld]


ALT note: Here's Amazon.com's description of Hughie:

Hughie, the only surviving manuscript from a series of eight one-act monologue plays that O'Neill planned in 1940, was completed in 1941. In the play, only two characters appear on stage; Hughie, the third and most important one, is dead. It is Hughie's innocence, gullibility, and need to believe in a far more exciting existence than he ever knew that gives purpose to the shabby livs of the two who remain. O'Neill here again writes of the defeated and the courage that comes by way of illusions.

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