This month sees Arthaven presenting it's first Theatrical performance. The one act play "Hughie" will be produced by New York Productions and will take place on Friday 30th June @ 730pm. Tickets are available from the gallery and cost €12 including a nice glass of wine.
About the play
The time of ''Hughie'' is 1928, and the place is the lobby of a small, once respectable second-rate hotel on a West Side street in midtown Manhattan. The place is now only slightly better than a flophouse. In the late hours of a very long night, Erie Smith (Ber Power), a failed Broadway sport, gambler and horse player, bends the ear of the uninterested night clerk (John Roche). Erie is just coming off a five-day drunk triggered, he says, by the funeral of the previous night clerk, Hughie.
About Eugene O' Neill
One of the greatest American playwrights, restless and bold experimenter, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936. Among O'Neill's best-known plays are ANNA CHRISTINE (pub. 1922), DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (pub.1924), MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (pub. 1931), LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (pub. 1956), and THE ICEMAN COMETH (prod. 1946). O'Neill's plays range in style from satire to tragedy. They often depict people who have no hope of controlling their destinies.
Curiously, Al Pacino played the lead role of Erie Smith to huge critical acclaim in New York, San Francisco, and LA in the late 90's.
Here are some interesting links about O' Neills' life:
http://velvet_peach.tripod.com/fzpachughie.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oneill.htm
