Darrell finds that his arrangement with Nina is not as simple as he thought it would be. Bogard points out that some regarded it as "naïve in its use of psychological theory, overly long and unclear in its theme." Darrell desires her but tells himself he is not in love. … and the fourth man! She sees this aspect of God as "a male whose chest thunders with egotism and is … thoroughly comfortless. It centers on Nina Leeds, a passionate, tormented woman whose fiancé was killed in World War I and who spends the remainder of her life searching for an always-elusive happiness. But when Nina gives birth to Gordon, whom Sam thinks is his own son, his life changes. And Sam's "son" Gordon is following directly in his supposed father's footsteps when he refuses to believe that his mother could ever be unfaithful, unable even to comprehend the news that Ned Darrell is his real father. There had been no fighting in the United States itself, American casualties were only a fraction of those suffered by the other belligerents, and the U.S. economy remained strong. THEMES Although he has an emotional attachment to Nina, it is not a sexual one. Maybe he could get away with a play or two by saying it's the plot, but all three I've read are centered around an awfully written woman who's problems are centered around not being the right kind for the men of the story (who are also generally unlikable by today's standar. It is thought by Nina, who in this scene regards him with a kind of affectionate contempt: What has Charlie done? In 2003 regisseerde Johan Doesburg 'Strange Interlude' voor het eerst. 1938: A young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp. The film stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on the 1928 play Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill. Again, I am not sure how this show is actually supposed to be staged and would take a Herculean effort of stage design, extremely quick aging make-up and wig changes, a strong and clear direction of how to treat the characters' "thoughts". After marrying Evans, she meets Mrs. Amos, who gives her a different perspective than that supplied by her father. Nina would have married him before he left, but her father forbade the marriage. He had therefore, with a characteristic disregard of current fashions, elaborated what might otherwise have been a commonplace plot into nine acts, with a total playing time almost twice as long as what we are used to. Distributie Kenneth Branagh, Rosemary Harris. Is heredity a factor in common mental illnesses such as depression? CRITICAL OVERVIEW Free from the burden of knowing reality, completely protected in his illusions, Sam has been able to achieve material success and bring security to those around him. And finally there is the death of Sam Evans, which no one seems to know how to respond to. He is devastated when his mother dies of cancer. She has identified him with her father throughout the play; here she calls him father, and she yields to his love as a daughter would to a comforting father. That and there was just as much internal thought written out in this play as there was dialogue. O'Neill is here dealing with behavior and responses which are the result of earlier unrelieved agonies, and it is only when O'Neill deals more directly with those earlier agonies that the plays probe deeply into human experience. Albee himself directed this Broadw…, EURIPIDES Instead, Darrell tells Evans that Nina is pregnant and then says he is sailing for Europe in a few days. It is written out of O'Neill's despair, of both past and present, and his desire to find the kind of escape the residents of Harry Hope's saloon find through their pipe dreams and their nickel whiskey, but which O'Neill never could find by such methods. In 1920, Beyond the Horizon brought O'Neill the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes, and in the same year, The Emperor Jones was staged internationally.