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- Marsden tells Nina to regard those twenty-five years ‘‘as an interlude, of trial and preparation, say, in which our souls have been scraped clean of impure flesh and made worthy.’’ This is the ‘‘strange interlude’’ to which the title of the play refers, a time in which each character must go through a process of purification.
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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. 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.
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When Nina’s father dies, she turns almost automatically to Marsden as a kind of surrogate. Marsden, taking his cue from Darrell, suggests Evans as a possible husband, and Nina drowsily assents.
Character description, analysis and casting breakdown for Charles Marsden from Strange Interlude
Acts 1 and 2 both begin with long soliloquies by Marsden; Acts 1 and 5 with a soliloquy by Nina; and act 4 with a soliloquy by Evans. A related device is the aside, a convention in which a ...
Strange Interlude (1928) Author: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Characters CHARLES MARSDEN PROFESSOR HENRY LEEDS NINA LEEDS, his daughter EDMUND DARRELL SAM EVANS MRS. AMOS EVANS, Sam's mother GORDON EVANS MADELINE ARNOLD FIRST PART ACT ONE SCENE—The library of Professor Leeds' home in a small university town in New England. This room is at the ...
When Sam dies, Nina chooses not to marry Ned but instead finally fulfills the wishes of her most ardent supporter and admirer, Charles Marsden, who honestly believes that he has finally won her heart.
Strange Interlude (1928) by Eugene O'Neill. Act One. →. related portals: American literature, Pulitzers. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1928.
