'Strange Interlude' at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Simon Chin
Eugene O'Neill, as Stephen Sondheim has written, was an experimental playwright whose theatrical ambition soared far above his literary accomplishment, which often remained earthbound. Strange Interlude, O'Neill's nine-act psychodrama from 1928, is no exception to this observation. It is a work of vaulting ambition, seeking to capture nothing less than Freudian psychological theory and Joycean more »