Strange Interlude
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
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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
Library, the Leeds’ home in a small university town of New England—an afternoon in late summer.
The same. Fall of the following year. Night.
Dining room of the Evans’ homestead in northern New York state—late spring of the next year. Morning.
The same as Acts One and Two. Fall of the same year. Evening.
Sitting room of small house Evans has rented in a seashore suburb near New York. The following April. Morning.
Second Part
The same. A little over a year later. Evening.
Sitting room of the Evans’ apartment on Park Avenue. Nearly eleven years later. Early afternoon.
Section of afterdeck of the Evans’ cruiser anchored near the finish line at Poughkeepsie. Ten years later. Afternoon.
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 before January 1, 1929.
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