Guilford Theatre Studies Presents Ah, Wilderness!
Eugene O’Neill’s only full-length comedy, Ah, Wilderness!, opens the 2007-08 Guilford main-stage theatre season with performances Nov. 9-10 and 15-17 at 8 p.m. in Sternberger Auditorium in Founders Hall. David Hammond, professor of theatre studies at Guilford and artistic director emeritus of PlayMakers Repertory Company at UNC Chapel Hill will direct.
On a memorable Fourth of July in an early 20th Century New England town, young Richard Miller finds himself disappointed with love and filled with a desire to explore life. On a day that could change his life forever, he decides to abandon his middle class family and confront his dark side. His traditional and somewhat quirky family steps in to save him from his own foolishness.
O’Neill based the character of Richard on himself and called the play, “a sort of wishing out loud, it is the way I would have liked my childhood to have been.” The play opened on Broadway with the legendary George M. Cohan in 1933, and had four subsequent revivals. Its timeless themes of optimism and familial bonds have made it one of the great American plays of the 20th Century.
Tickets are $5 for the public, and can be reserved by calling 336-316-2414. For more information, visit www.guilford.edu.
Nov. 9, 2007