‘ANNA CHRISTIE’ Directed by Eric F. Hayes

September 2023, Tao House in Danville, CA

October 2023, St. Michael’s Cathedral in New Ross, Ireland

ADRIAN DEANE LEADS A CAST OF 5 FROM DANVILLE TO NEW ROSS, IRELAND

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"I wanted to have the audience leave with a deep feeling of life flowing on, of the past which is never the past—but always the birth of the future.... It would have been so obvious and easy to have made my last act a tragic one.... It would not have been true. They would act in just the silly, immature compromising way that I have made them act... a bit tragically humorous in their vacillating weakness."

—O'Neill responding to critics

Lead actress Adrian Deane emphasized the protagonist's trajectory of self-discovery as central to themes and tone of the play.

"Anna is someone who is searching for perhaps the greatest thing someone can search for: more even than a father, another's love and a home where she belongs, Anna is searching for herself," Deane said. "At the end of this play she comes to know as if by better acquaintance that this 'Anna Christie' she used to call herself is an important part of her too -- someone she has grown from yes, but also someone who will always be a part of her and whom she will no longer hide or hide from."

NEW ROSS, IRELAND HOSTS ‘ANNA CHRISTIE’ TEAM FOR OCTOBER 15TH PERFORMANCE

“One Festival, Two Countries”

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/new-ross-news/eugene-oneill-festival-will-take-place-in-new-ross-in-october/a497245237.html