num_pages: 352
description: Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude controversial work of extraordinary power, remarkable length nine acts and use of asides to express the characters' unspoken thoughts. An outstanding, somewhat Freudian play from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.Nina Leeds is a mercurial woman, haunted and broken by the death of her fiancé Gordon Shaw in the First World War – after her father had convinced him to postpone the marriage until his safe return. Always searching for the ever-elusive happiness Shaw gave her, she flirts with the feelings of the various men in her her friend Charles Marsden, deeply in love with her, is nevertheless too shy to confess; her new husband Sam Evans, with his own history of mental illness and inability to give her a child; Edmund 'Ned' Darrell, so desperate for her to leave Sam that he gives her the child she craves so badly. And then finally comes little Gordon, the result of Nina's affair with Ned, ignorant of his parentage – the only man she really dotes on whilst the others orbit around her...Eugene O'Neill's play Strange Interlude opened on Broadway in January 1928, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
language: English
title: Strange Interlude
titlecomplete: Strange Interlude
characters: Gordon Evans, Mrs. Evans, Charles Marsden, Sam Evans (Strange Interlude), Ned Darrell, Madeline Arnold, Prof. Henry Leeds, Nina Leeds
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, Tragedy, The United States Of America, Drama, Classics, Nobel Prize, 20th Century
ratings_count: 485
places: New York (State)
awards: awardedAt: -1325433600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)