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Christina Whitmore Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Starring: William Swetland, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Victor Garber, Richard Backus, Christina Whitmore Directed By: Arvin Brown Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Image Entertainment Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 18, 2001 Running Time: 117 minutes Theatrical Release Date: October 13, 1976
Description: This production of Eugene O'Neill's nostalgic paean to the rites of adolescence has been hailed for its beauty, intimacy and good humor. Set in New England in the days of America's innocence, the affectionate comedy presents a young man's coming of age during a summer in which he experiments with poetry, politics, wicked women and alcohol and succumbs to his first romantic crush.
Amazon.com: Dour playwright Eugene O'Neill took a rare comedic look at life in Ah, Wilderness!, perhaps his warmest play, here given a superb performance (based on a production by the Long Wharf Theater). Over the course of a Fourth of July weekend, a young man has his heart broken, discovers drink and loose women, and puts his heart back together again. The play contrasts young love with the enduring affection of the young man's parents--and with the failed relationship of the boy's alcoholic uncle and spinster aunt. The balance of affection and sorrow is handled with sure skill, both in the play and in the production, which features O'Neill stalwart Geraldine Fitzgerald, as well as actors like Swoosie Kurtz and Linda Hunt, who would go on to future stardom. Sweet but not saccharine, sad but not bitter, Ah, Wilderness! stands as one of O'Neill's best works. --Bret Fetzer
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