Trekking gently through O'Neill's nostalgic Wilderness
Can we agree that Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! is warm and wonderful...and weird? The sepia-tinted 1933 play is a rare light work from tragedian O'Neill, though its fantasy elements " the family O'Neill wished he had growing up rather than the more nightmarish version he depicted in Long Day's Journey Into Night " lend it a rather sad underpinning. It's almost as if O'Neill strayed into Kaufman and Hart territor…