Anna Christie

ALL SPOILERS: A woman reconnects with her estranged, seaman father because she is seeking some rest. She has an unknown illness and reluctantly boards with him on his barge and comes to enjoy it, even meeting and falling in love with an Irish sailor. It all comes to a head when the Irishman proposes and Anna refuses spilling the details of her past. When her father left her to be raised with her cousins on the farm the youngest son began to rape her and to escape it she turned to prostitution. How could anyone want to marry that? The father and Irishman go on land to escape this shocking news. But quickly come around, Matt'll marry her only if she swears on this catholic cross that she never loved any of the other men. GAH gimme a show more break.

I listened to the L.A. Theater works audio recording. All the swapping of y's for j's was getting to me at the end but it was well produced and well acted. show less

There is a reason why this is a classic.

Full cast recording was marvelous & really helped me with O'Neill's written accents.

Cast
"Johnny-the-priest": Nullifidian
First Longshoreman/Voice: jwg
Second Longshoreman/Johnson: Marty Kris
Postman: Max Korlinge
Larry: Matthew Reece
Chris Christopherson: Lars Rolander
Marthy Owen: Pat Redstone
Anna Christopherson: Elizabeth Klett
Mat Burke: Tadhg Hynes
Narrator: David Goldfarb

Setting: Johnny-the-Priest's saloon, near South Street, New York City. The stern of the barge of the "Simeon Winthrop" at anchor in the outer harbor of Provincetown, Mass. Interior of a cabin of the "Simeon Winthrop" at dock in Boston harbor. 1912. The plot involves Anna returning to her father after 15 years abroad. Her father, who is a captain on a barge, is happy to see her, even though she's acting a bit cagey. She soon falls in love with a grizzled seaman, who also notices that something, a barrier if you will, is holding her back. Anyways, the two fellows don't particularly like each other and soon come to blows. This is a play that doesn't go beyond creaky melodrama.

Anna Christie è una ex prostituta che si innamora di un marinaio che lavora con il padre. Non sa però come svelare ad entrambi il suo difficile passato...