In today's Wall Street Journal I review a webcast of the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * How bad can a play be and still be good? Eugene O'Neill tested the limits many times, perhaps most exasperatingly in the long-winded, top-heavy "A Touch of the Poet," whose first act (there are four) consists almost entirely of clumsy exposition tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM on October 30, 2020