First performance at the Greenwich Theatre, 6 May 1987
Scans and some info available thanks to Kitty and the aFirthionado archive.
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Summary:Desire Under the Elms is set on a Connecticut farm in the middle of the 19th Century and features the Cabot family.
Eugene O'Neill's most successful play during the mid-1920’s was Desire Under the Elms, which he wrote just after his brother’s death. Desire received its Broadway premiere in 1924. It proved an immediate and lasting success, and moved O’Neill from the expressionist and theatrical experimental plays of his early career into psychological and character driven work.
Comments on Colin's performance from the review in "Plays and Players", July 1987:
[...] Eben, played with a remarkable intensity by Colin Firth [...]
[...] Firth's performance is all the more creditable [...]
