"Though it won a Pulitzer prize in 1922, Eugene O'Neill's social melodrama Anna Christie is not among the venerated playwright's most famous works. For the better part of a century, ambitious theater artists have endeavored to climb the mountains of Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Iceman Cometh. Less so for Anna Christie, a strange piece about a supposedly ruined woman trying to get her life back in order."
"Anna Christie is an erratic and now quite dated play, one whose moral outlook is hard to parse, its shifts in tone sudden and varied. There's also the matter that at 45, Williams is about a quarter-century older than O'Neill's heroine, who is meant to be a hardened and battered young woman trying to start her adult life on new footing."
Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie won a Pulitzer in 1922 but remains less famous than Long Day's Journey Into Night or The Iceman Cometh. Michelle Williams returns to the stage after a nine-year hiatus in a production at St. Ann's Warehouse directed by Thomas Kail. The play feels erratic and dated, with sudden tonal shifts and a hard-to-parse moral outlook. Williams, at 45, is much older than O'Neill's intended young heroine. The staging is tedious and mercurial, offering little substance. Bryan d'Arcy James plays Chris, a barge captain fearful of the sea. Anna fled brutal brothel work, was raised in Minnesota, and returns to find her father, forming a wary bond amid anger and dependence.
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