THE HAIRY APE by Eugene O’Neill

Directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes

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Sep 5–7/11–14 (Thu-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 1:30pm)

Shows at Tao House with shuttle from Museum of the San Ramon Valley one and a half hours prior to performance.   map it

Run time is approximately 90 minutes with one intermission

Sep 20, 21 (Sat 7:30pm, Sun 1:30pm)***  Talkbacks with director and cast following all Village Theatre performances

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Nearly all of Eugene O’Neill’s characters struggle with a world of private pain aggravated by a powerful sense of feeling out of place. Like the playwright himself, they long to find a sense of belonging. Often these characters, after reflection, choose retreat. They choose to escape a painful existence by disengaging from the world around them. But one of O’Neill’s desperate misfits takes a different tack. Robert “Yank” Smith in The Hairy Ape finds himself equally out of place and in pain, but instead of manufacturing a private refuge, he barrels headfirst into the world around him seeking to prove how he fits, not how to escape the world. Driven by an unmatched desire to find where he belongs, Yank is Eugene O’Neill’s ultimate seeker.

In The Hairy Ape, Yank is the master of all he surveys until an encounter with a mysterious woman in white turns his world upside down. The experience sends him on a quest to find her and ultimately find where he belongs. Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 theatrical fantasy will be brought to life by a dynamic ensemble of six actors in a highly imaginative production of this O’Neill classic.