The First Man review " the ego cometh in Eugene O'Neill's early drama
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThe American playwright's 1922 drama, given its UK premiere, suffers from its sentimentality and characters driven by rage and rancourI've often quoted a dictum by the German dramatist Hebbel that, "in a good play, everyone is right". A corollary of that might be that in a bad play everyone is wrong. That is certainly the case in this forgotten 1922 piece by Eugene O'Neill, here receiving…