70 YEARS AGO (1931).(Mourning Becomes Electra)(Brief Article)

American Theatre, October, 2001

"An achievement which restores the theatre to its high estate" is the breathless verdict of John Mason Brown, writing in the Evening Post about Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Featuring an ivory-columned set by Robert Edmond Jones, this trilogy is O'Neill's re-imagining of the Oresteia, but spread across the landscape of the Civil War (and spread out to feel nearly as long, clocking in at just under six hours).