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- Around the table in the original 1933 Broadway production of Ah, Wilderness! are (from left) George M. Cohan (Nat Miller), Eda Heinemann (Lily), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Richard), Gene Lockhart (Sid), Marjorie Marquis (Mrs. Nat Miller), Walter Vonnegut, Jr. (Tommy) and Adelaide Bean (Mildred).
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The play takes place on the Fourth of July 1906 and focuses on the Miller family, presumably of New London, Connecticut. The main plot deals with the middle son, 16-year-old Richard, and his coming of age in turn-of-the-century America.
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1933
Wilderness! is a feel-good coming-of-age story about young Richard Miller, whose romantic woes shape the play. When Richard is prevented from dating his neighbor Muriel, he goes on a drunken bender and attempts to woo the more worldly-wise Belle.
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Ah, Wilderness!, comedy in four acts by Eugene O’Neill, published and first performed in 1933. Perhaps the most atypical of the author’s works, the play presents a sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a turn-of-the-century New England town. Richard, adolescent son of the local newspaper.
- Eugene O'Neill
- 1933
Although Belle tries to seduce the inexperienced Richard, he stays true to his family and to Muriel. In fact, when Belle leaves Richard’s table for a salesman with money, Richard, a bit drunk, starts a fight with the salesman, whom he believes has insulted Belle.
Oct 3, 2020 · Emily Goss (Muriel McComber) and Matt Gall (Richard) in Ah, Wilderness!, directed by Steve Robman/Photo by Craig Schwartz. Synopsis. Act 1. The Miller family sitting room in “a large small-town in Connecticut” (New London) at around 7:30 in the morning on July 4, 1906.
