Beyond the Horizon (play)
Encyclopedia
Beyond the Horizon is a 1920 play written by American playwright
Eugene O'Neill
. It was O'Neill's first full-length work, and the winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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The play focuses on the portrait of a family, and particularly two brothers Andrew and Robert.
In the first act of the play, Robert is about to go off to sea with their uncle Dick, a sea captain while Andrew looks forward to marrying his sweetheart Ruth and working on the family farm as he starts a family.
in November 2009. This production subsequently transferred to London's National Theatre
in March 2010.
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...
. It was O'Neill's first full-length work, and the winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than the calendar year...
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The play focuses on the portrait of a family, and particularly two brothers Andrew and Robert.
In the first act of the play, Robert is about to go off to sea with their uncle Dick, a sea captain while Andrew looks forward to marrying his sweetheart Ruth and working on the family farm as he starts a family.
Adaptations
The play was adapted for television in 1975, directed by Rick Hauser and Michael Kahn and aired on PBS.Revival
The play was most recently revived by Royal & Derngate in NorthamptonNorthampton
Northampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. Situated about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, Northampton lies on the River Nene and is the county town of Northamptonshire. The demonym of Northampton is...
in November 2009. This production subsequently transferred to London's National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
in March 2010.