Anna Christie
1921 play by Eugene O'Neill / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Anna Christie (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Anna Christy.
Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich, the original of Anna Christie was Christine Ell, an anarchist cook in Greenwich Village, who was the lover of Edward Mylius, a Belgian-born radical living in England who libeled the British king George V.[1]
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Anna Christie | |
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Written by | Eugene O'Neill |
Date premiered | November 2, 1921 |
Place premiered | Vanderbilt Theatre New York City |
Original language | English |
Subject | A former prostitute falls in love, but runs into difficulty in turning her life around. |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | 1910; a New York City saloon; on a barge at anchor in Provincetown. |
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