Theatre TJC presents: An Evening of Eugene O’Neill The Glencairn Sea Plays “Bound East for Cardiff”; “Long Voyage Home”; “In the Zone”

February 22-24 at 7:30 P. M. February 25 at 2:30 P.M. and 7:30 P. M. Box Office opens Tuesday, February 15. Hours are 1-6 p.m. weekdays. Call 903-510-2212 Where: Daily operations in the Rogers Palmer Performing Arts Center. Evening operations at the Jean Browne Theatre. Tickets prices are $10 for adults, $5 for seniors, students and active military. Known as the first great American playwright, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches. “Eugene O'Neill's has done nothing much in the American drama save to transform it utterly in ten or twelve years from a false world of neat and competent trickery to a world of splendor, fear and greatness . . .” Sinclair Lewis WE celebrate Eugene O’Neill’s early work in three of the six sea plays that grabbed the attention of the American audience. These plays are endlessly fascinating. But beware! The first three plays, the "S.S. Glencairn" series, are realistic and straight forward stories of daily life at sea in the early 1900's.