Desire Under the Elms
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She won the Critics' Circle Award in 2012 for most promising newcomer for Desire Under the Elms at the Lyric Hammersmith.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2016
In O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, he had two loads of farm equipment of clearly different weights placed just off the stage.
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The gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama.
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But Desire Under the Elms concerns more than an actual fight over land: its harsh primitivism seeks to lay bare a crippling Puritanism, to paint a gaunt New England landscape of the mind and will.
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Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore.
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