Featuring, William J. Brown III, Sylvia Burboeck, Craig Eychner, Michael Fay, Joe Fitzgerald, Mia Fryvecind, Megan Miller, Mahal Montoya, Eden Neuendorf, Charles Woodson Parker, Len Shaffer
Photographer: Robert Allen Shattuck

Pictured is William J. Brown III  as Orin

Daughter Lavinia Mannon (Eden Neuendorf), Brigadier-General Ezra Mannon (Michael Fay) and wife Christine (Sylvia Burboeck).

Megan Miller, Mia Fryvecind, Craig Eychner, Charles Woodson Parker and Michael Fay
Photographer: Lisa Danz

by Eugene O’Neill

September 16 - October 1, 2011

A Sweeping Epic. Betrayal, murder, revenge, honor and fate dominate Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra – the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s adaptation of the Greek myth Oresteia set in New England at the end of the American Civil War.

Cursed by the sins of their fathers, the Mannon Family is driven by the dark side of their natures into a cycle of destruction. Can redemption be found or is the family doomed to repeat its sins for eternity? In the tradition of Greek tragedy, this epic story is presented as a trilogy The Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted.

The premier in New York City in 1931 received critical and public acclaim and ran for 150 performances. Helen Mirren was lauded for her role in a 2003 National Theatre production in Washington DC as Christine, the woman in an unhappy marriage who says of husband Ezra, “he was silent, mysterious and romantic. But marriage soon turned his romance into disgust.”

The text is chock full of the quotable, poetic words we wish we could have written.