MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA

by O'Neill, Eugene

The master dramatist’s great epic trilogy, which traces the rise and fall of a New England family in terms paralleling the structure of The Oresteia of Aeschylus.The plays may be produced in their entirety only, as a trilogy, and in the order intended by the author.

The individual plays comprising the trilogy are: HOMECOMING, which calls for 7 men, 2 women; THE HUNTED, which calls for 7 men, 5 women; and THE HAUNTED, which calls for 5 men, 5 women. The action of all three plays takes place in exterior and interior settings at the Mannion residence.