Desire Under the Elms
Opening Night: February 4, 2009
Closing: February 22, 2009
Theater: Goodman Theatre
A long, heated gaze between stepmother and stepson kindles a fatal conflagration in the major new revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms” at the Goodman Theater here.
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February 4, 2009
Peg, a bourbon-steeped, whiskey-voiced screenwriter who finds herself on the rocks in Omaha in 1949, says she used to be MGM’s go-to gal for script editing. But if Peg (played by the ever commanding Kathleen Turner) is feeling underemployed, then why, oh why, doesn’t she take a blue pencil to the play in which she appears?
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