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Strange Interlude

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Strange Interlude (1928)
by Eugene O'Neill
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STRANGE INTERLUDE

EUGENE O’NEILL

A Play


STRANGE INTERLUDE



NEW YORK

BONI & LIVERIGHT

1928

Copyright, 1928, by

Boni & Liveright, Inc.


Printed in the United States of America


First printing, February, 1928
Second printing, March, 1928
Third printing, March, 1928
Fourth printing, May, 1928

NOTE

All rights reserved including that of translation into foreign languages. All acting rights, both professional and amateur, including motion picture rights, are reserved in the United States, Great Britain and all countries of the Copyright Union by the author.

In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only and no performance may be given without special arrangement with the author's agent.

CHARACTERS

Charles Marsden

Professor Henry Leeds

Nina Leeds, his daughter

Edmund Darrell

Sam Evans

Mrs. Amos Evans, Sam’s mother

Gordon Evans

Madeline Arnold

SCENES

First Part

Act One

Library, the Leeds’ home in a small university town of New England—an afternoon in late summer.

Act Two

The same. Fall of the following year. Night.

Act Three

Dining room of the Evans’ homestead in northern New York state—late spring of the next year. Morning.

Act Four

The same as Acts One and Two. Fall of the same year. Evening.

Act Five

Sitting room of small house Evans has rented in a seashore suburb near New York. The following April. Morning.


Second Part

Act Six

The same. A little over a year later. Evening.

Act Seven

Sitting room of the Evans’ apartment on Park Avenue. Nearly eleven years later. Early afternoon.

Act Eight

Section of afterdeck of the Evans’ cruiser anchored near the finish line at Poughkeepsie. Ten years later. Afternoon.

Act Nine

A terrace on the Evans’ estate on Long Island. Several months later. Late afternoon.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1928, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1953, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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