eugene o'neill Festival 2024

SWEEPING PASSIONS

 

Tao House will get caught up in Sweeping Passions this fall. The Eugene O’Neill Festival 2024 will be centered around one of the playwright’s most dramatic and adventurous creations Mourning Becomes Electra. O’Neill’s great American take on Greek tragedy is an action-packed epic featuring all the hallmarks of a great soap opera: jealousy, adultery, revenge, murder, incest, suicide, and more murder! All the things that are horrible to experience in real life but horribly entertaining when watching fictious characters.

The trilogy of one-act plays that make up MBE also highlight O’Neill’s trademark insight into the desires and struggles of the human condition as well as a haunting musical score. The setting for MBE is the exterior and interior of the temple-like Mannon house. September’s production will be performed in the courtyard in front of Tao House as well as in the Old Barn theatre a short walk away.

This site-specific Mourning Becomes Electra at Tao House promises to be a compelling one-of-a-kind experience not to be missed.

Look to encounter Sweeping Passions through other festival events to be announced shortly.

 

Directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes.

Tickets will be available starting in July.

 

Sat. Sep. 14,  4:00 pm

Sun. Sep. 15, 4:00 pm

Fri. Sep. 20, 6:00 pm

Sat. Sep. 21, 4:00 pm

Sun. Sep. 22, 4:00 pm

Fri. Sep. 27, 6:00 pm

Sat. Sep. 28, 4:00 pm

Sun. Sep. 29, 4:00 pm

 

 

Check back here for other Festival events, tba

 

We hope to see you there!

The Eugene O’Neill Festival: a history

Since 1999, the annual Eugene O’Neill Festival has celebrated dramatic theatre in the San Fransisco Bay Area. Similarly-themed plays from classic playwrights and O’Neill contemporaries are chosen for production at various locations in Danville with the centerpiece O’Neill show being performed at Tao House itself. In 2013, the festival grew to a month-long event which now includes a guided hikes to the Tao House property, a historic tour of Danville, special exhibits at the Museum of San Ramon Valley, seminars with dramaturgs, actors and directors, and several social events.