Desire under the Elms

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Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill. A classic play about love and desire in a rural American family. One of the great plays of the 20th century, it was first performed by the Proivince town Players in Greenwhich Village in 1924, starring Walter Huston. Also published in America in 1924. The first film, starring Sophia Loren, Burl Ives and Anthony Perkins, was made in 1958. *** Translated into Afrikaans as Begeerte (“Desire”) by Nerina Ferreira. ** Janice Honeyman adapted the Afrikaans text to a South African environment in her 2006 production for the KKNK and the Baxter Theatre, design by Birrie le Roux, music by Royston Stoffels and starring Marius Weyers, Anna Mart van der Merwe and Jan Ellis.


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