Talk by playwright Ronán Noone at the Eugene O'Neill Symposium.

"The Joy is in the Struggle"

While Long Day's Journey into Night is going on in the living room - what is happening in the kitchen? THIRST is the play that takes place in the kitchen of Monte Cristo Cottage during that fateful day in August, 1912. By using an upstairs/downstairs perspective, it opens a conversation with Eugene O’Neill’s classic family drama. Ronán Noone (Boston University), author of THIRST, discusses the process of creating the play while illustrating how the themes of deracination and immigration are considered essential to our understanding of O'Neill's work.