Eugene O'Neill play acquired by Yale University
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 09:48:19 CDT 2011
A play by US author Eugene O'Neill that was feared to be lost has been
acquired by a Yale University library.
The one-act play, titled Exorcism, is based on the Nobel Prize-winning
author's suicide attempt when he was in his mid-twenties.
It premiered in New York City in 1920, but O'Neill later called back
the script and destroyed all the copies.
But one copy was found in the papers of the writer Philip Yordan, who
apparently received it as a gift.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15382431
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