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Organizers with the Eugene O’Neill Foundation are revealing details of the upcoming annual festival dedicated to the famed late playwright and to showcasing his former Danville home that is now a national historic site.
Tickets are now on sale for the Eugene O’Neill Festival’s two major productions – “Prisontown”, written and performed by previous artist-in-residence Lee Osorio and directed by Richard Perez, and “The Hairy Ape”, written by O’Neill himself and performed by an ensemble cast directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes.
“Both Festival plays offer us stories of people haunted by forces that they don’t understand and yet need to pursue on a journey to discover themselves and where they belong,” organizers wrote in an announcement this month. “We all desire individual recognition as well as feeling connected to others. Like the characters in our Festival stories, we all seek to be seen, be heard, and to belong.”
“Prisontown” tells the story of a writer drawn back to his hometown of Lumpkin, Ga., following a notice from his immigration attorney brother, subsequently haunted by a ghost as he explores the town’s transformation into the home of a significant immigration detention center.
“The Hairy Ape”, an expressionist work of O’Neill’s written during his early career in 1922, centers on its main character’s Robert “Yank” Smith’s encounter with a mysterious woman dressed in white and his subsequent mission to find her again – and to “ultimately find where he belongs,” according to EONF organizers.
Now in its 26th year, the Eugene O’Neill Festival is set to kick off with the production of “Prisontown” Aug. 23-24 at the Veterans Memorial Hall in downtown Danville. “The Hairy Ape” follows from Sept. 5 through Sept. 21, first in the old barn theater at O’Neill’s Tao House property in the Danville hills and then at the Village Theatre downtown.
Tickets and more information are available at eugeneoneill.org.
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