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Strange Interlude is an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [1] Strange Interlude is one of the few modern plays to make extensive use of a soliloquy technique, in which the characters speak their inner thoughts to the audience. O'Neill began work on it as early as 1923 ...
- January 30, 1928
- Eugene O'Neill
Strange Interlude is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on the 1928 play Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill. It is greatly shortened from the play: the stage production lasts six hours and is sometimes performed over ...
- $1.2 million
- Robert Z. Leonard, Irving Thalberg
- $654,000
Strange Interlude, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama in two parts and nine acts by Eugene O’Neill.It was produced in 1928 in New York City and was published the same year. The work’s complicated plot is the story of a woman in her roles as daughter, wife, mistress, mother, and friend.
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Jun 5, 2013 · Strange Interlude – review. E ugene O'Neill's 1928 play is famous for many things: its inordinate length, its prolonged asides and its extensive portrait of one woman, Nina Leeds, over the ...
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Strange Interlude was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1929, and when published, it became a national bestseller, the first time a play had attained this status. Over one hundred thousand copies were sold. Largely because of its length, Strange Interlude was not performed frequently. But there was a production at the Hudson Theatre, New ...
Oct 22, 2017 · Eugene O’Neill’s soapy saga “Strange Interlude” was nearly six hours long when it opened on Broadway in 1928, and the audience got only one intermission, long enough for an unhurried dinner.
A play by Eugene O'Neill about the life of Nina Leeds, a woman who has an affair with three men and faces various challenges and dilemmas. The title refers to a line from the play, "Our lives are mere strange dark interludes in the electrical display of God the Father!" The play explores topics such as adultery, abortion, and insanity.
