A Touch of the Poet (Broadway Theatre Archive) (1974) Review

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(More customer reviews)"A Touch Of The Poet" is probably the best O'Neill play you've never seen or read, and so it is fortunate that this production has been preserved by the Broadway Theatre Archive. The two leads, Roberta Maxwell and Fritz Weaver, are amazing, and Nancy Marchand is splendid as the passively adoring and long-suffering wife. The story, which is set in the era of the rise of Andrew Jackson, has a startlingly contemporary feel, evoking both the immigrant experience as well as the rise of the American industrial society. An amazing work, the only completed play in what O'Neill's planned as an eleven play cycle. Buy this, and enjoy.

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Produced on Broadway in 1958 five years after Eugene O'Neill's death, A Touch of the Poet was conceived as part of a nine-play chronicle spanning 175 years in the life of an American family. Set in a shabby tavern outside Boston in 1828, the play centers on Cornelius Melody, a proud Irishman who clings to memories of European gentility. Like other O'Neill works such as A Moon for the Misbegotten and Long Day's Journey into Night, A Touch of the Poet explores its characters' conflicts with reality and illusion, as well as their joys and sorrows in love. "Fritz Weaver's portrayal is a tour de force." --The New York Daily News. With Nancy Marchand, Fritz Weaver, Roberta Maxwell, Donald Moffat, and John Heffernan.

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