The Hairy Ape, Old Vic
Never use one word when you can get away with two: that seems to have been the maxim of Eugene O'Neill even in one of his shorter plays. After all, when is an ape not hairy, and why does stoker Robert "Yank" Smith, a natural hulk brought low by mechanised capital, have to bang home the title at every opportunity? Yes, this must have been an astonishing play to see on Broadway in 1922, and it still gives director Rich…
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