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The Moon of the Caribbees And Six Other Plays of the Sea Eugene O'Neill 9781298505750 Books
This collection of 7 one-act plays from Eugene O'Neill's early years unites stories about the sea and sailors. O'Neill had been a sailor himself, which brings him near to my heroes Melville and Conrad. All plays were produced on stage in Provincetown or New York. All plays are like short stories transformed into stage tales. 4 of the 7 are about the crew on the British steamer Glencairn. WW1 plays a role in one of the stories, the others are set earlier.The plays are interesting enough, but still apprentice work.
`Bound East for Cardiff' was O'Neill's first play to be produced on stage in Provincetown, in 1916. It is about a sailor dying in his bunk of the Glencairn at sea after an accident. One senses an influence from Conrad's Narcissus, which O'Neill had read some years before. He was quite able to supplement the story from own experience at sea.
`In the Zone', the Glencairn transports ammunition to Liverpool during WW1. Tensions on board and fear of submarines rise high, and so does suspicion of a shipmate, Smitty, who behaves unusually and who is suspected to be a German spy or saboteur.
`Ile' has a mutiny on a whaler, when the captain refuses to turn for home at the end of the crew's 2 years contract. He doesn't have enough `ile' in the hold yet, as the ship had been stuck in ice in the Bering Sea longer than expected. The mutiny is worsened by the captain's wife, who had joined for the trip.
The odd title indicates one of the specific traits of the whole collection: the sailors all speak various dialects or foreign misappropriations of English.
`The Long Voyage Home' has some of the Glencairn crew on land, after pay day, in a London bar. You know. One of them, a Swede, has illusions that he will not drink and that he will travel home as a passenger and use the 2 years' pay to buy a piece of land and become a farmer. Dreamer. Swedes are like that, I am told.
The title play has our Glencairn crew partying on deck while the ship is at anchor at night in a West Indian island harbor. Rum and women lead to the usual brawls and noise. You know. The man singled out for unusual behavior, Smitty, is a melancholic alcoholic eaten by love sickness and sad memories. He takes the rum but rejects the girl.
`The Rope' is a bit of an outsider, not really a sea tale, just set on the coast and with a sailor on shore leave in the main cast. Members of a mean family quarrel about a senile old man's will. The key question is: does he have any cash hidden or is there just the farm, which is heavily mortgaged? No nice people here. It is a variation on the prodigal son theme.
`Where the Cross is Made' has a retired captain wait for the return of his lost ship. He lives on the California coast and has built a ship's deck replica on the roof of his house. He is rather crazy and spends nights on the roof looking out at the sea.
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The Moon of the Caribbees And Six Other Plays of the Sea Eugene O'Neill 9781298505750 Books Reviews
This collection of 7 one-act plays from Eugene O'Neill's early years unites stories about the sea and sailors. O'Neill had been a sailor himself, which brings him near to my heroes Melville and Conrad. All plays were produced on stage in Provincetown or New York. All plays are like short stories transformed into stage tales. 4 of the 7 are about the crew on the British steamer Glencairn. WW1 plays a role in one of the stories, the others are set earlier.
The plays are interesting enough, but still apprentice work.
`Bound East for Cardiff' was O'Neill's first play to be produced on stage in Provincetown, in 1916. It is about a sailor dying in his bunk of the Glencairn at sea after an accident. One senses an influence from Conrad's Narcissus, which O'Neill had read some years before. He was quite able to supplement the story from own experience at sea.
`In the Zone', the Glencairn transports ammunition to Liverpool during WW1. Tensions on board and fear of submarines rise high, and so does suspicion of a shipmate, Smitty, who behaves unusually and who is suspected to be a German spy or saboteur.
`Ile' has a mutiny on a whaler, when the captain refuses to turn for home at the end of the crew's 2 years contract. He doesn't have enough `ile' in the hold yet, as the ship had been stuck in ice in the Bering Sea longer than expected. The mutiny is worsened by the captain's wife, who had joined for the trip.
The odd title indicates one of the specific traits of the whole collection the sailors all speak various dialects or foreign misappropriations of English.
`The Long Voyage Home' has some of the Glencairn crew on land, after pay day, in a London bar. You know. One of them, a Swede, has illusions that he will not drink and that he will travel home as a passenger and use the 2 years' pay to buy a piece of land and become a farmer. Dreamer. Swedes are like that, I am told.
The title play has our Glencairn crew partying on deck while the ship is at anchor at night in a West Indian island harbor. Rum and women lead to the usual brawls and noise. You know. The man singled out for unusual behavior, Smitty, is a melancholic alcoholic eaten by love sickness and sad memories. He takes the rum but rejects the girl.
`The Rope' is a bit of an outsider, not really a sea tale, just set on the coast and with a sailor on shore leave in the main cast. Members of a mean family quarrel about a senile old man's will. The key question is does he have any cash hidden or is there just the farm, which is heavily mortgaged? No nice people here. It is a variation on the prodigal son theme.
`Where the Cross is Made' has a retired captain wait for the return of his lost ship. He lives on the California coast and has built a ship's deck replica on the roof of his house. He is rather crazy and spends nights on the roof looking out at the sea.
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