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Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill

destiel74's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The end was devastating and gut-punching.

foxgloved's review against another edition

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2.0

Are you looking for logic or common sense in this play? I have pretty disappointing news for you.

Let's have sex because I hate you, or no, now I do love you, but let ghost of my dead mother watch us.
And than again, you give birth of our child and I love you, but than it's turned out you sedused me in order to get my sperm, and I hate you.But than you are killing our new born baby and I reporting on you and want you to pay for what you've done, but than fucking not, let me confess on this crime I didn't commit because I really love you, and what to do to jail with you.

And me be reading this shit with WHF face.

a_little_shelf_absorbed's review against another edition

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2.0

Interesting rendition of a modern Greek tragedy. If you dig Freudian concepts and revenge, this might be the performance for you.

tscott907's review against another edition

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1.5

Read for Theatre History.
I have to give O'Neill some credit for serving as an establishing voice in the naturalist movement, but I genuinely hated this play. I didn't get what the point of the dialect was, and it just made me more irritated with the characters. No one in this play gets a full character arc; Abbie exists to be demonized and oversexualized. I was kind of looking forward to this based on the synopsis, but it fell completely flat for me.