Eugene O'Neill

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CHARACTERS

“JOHNNY-THE-PRIEST”
TWO LONGSHOREMEN
A POSTMAN
LARRY, bartender
CHRIS. CHRISTOPHERSON, captain of the barge “Simeon Winthrop”
MARTHY OWEN
ANNA CHRISTOPHERSON, Chris’s daughter
THREE MEN OF A STEAMER’S CREW
MAT BURKE, a stoker
JOHNSON, deckhand on the barge

SCENES

ACT I:  “Johnny-the-Priest’s” saloon near the waterfront, New York City
ACT II
:  The barge, Simeon Winthrop, at anchor in the harbor of Provincetown, Mass. Ten days later
ACT III
:  Cabin of the barge, at dock in Boston. A week later
ACT IV
:  The same. Two days later

Time of the Play—About 1910.

 

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