by Paul R. Spitzzeri. Speakers shift seamlessly between the conversation … By Asim Karim. https://thetheatretimes.com/david-greenspan-dazzles-one-man-strange-interlude Eugene O’Neil’s Use of Interior Monologue in Strange Interlude On 2 March 2018 By academia There is a consensus of perceptions that O’Neill as an artist developed over the years and that he experimented with a broad range of techniques in his long dramatic career. O’Neill’s innovation with Strange Interlude was to have his characters recite their inner monologues. In theater, playwright Eugene O'Neill made use of stream-of-consciousness monologues, most extensively in his 1928 drama Strange Interlude, and to a more limited extent in the play-cycle Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) and in other plays. In an astonishing psychodramatic feat, the characters voyage to the subconscious in a nine-act marathon of adultery and interior monologues. Strange Interlude covers a span of about twenty-five years in the lives of Nina Reeds and her three lovesick admirers—Charles Marsden, Edmund Darrell, and Sam Evans.At the beginning of the play, Nina is heartbroken over the death of the love of her life, Gordon Shaw, in World War I. The Other Wiki calls Strange Interlude "an experimental play". Strange Interlude was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1929, and when published, it became a national bestseller, the first time a play had attained this status. It was an event of notable proportions in the Angel City’s theatrical world when Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude” came to Erlanger’s Biltmore Theatre for a near month-long run in March 1929. Strange Interlude is a rather bizarre Hollywood film for it's time. For starters, it is very long, extending for nine acts. Over one hundred thousand copies were sold. EUGENE O’NEILL’S USE OF INTERIOR MONOLOGUE IN STRANGE INTERLUDE . -- "Strange Interlude" by Eugene O'Neill (1928). Additionally, in this play the characters actually verbalize their internal thoughts to the audience, with their inner monologue taking up more of the running time than the … Groucho Marx satirized “Strange Interlude” in “Animal Crackers” (1930), but he was satirizing the play, which had closed on Broadway the year before. Strange Interlude has been called the worst play ever written by a major dramatist, and the play that did most to popularise Freud in America. There is a consensus of perceptions that O’Neill as an artist developed over the years and that he experimented with a broad range of techniques in his long dramatic career. Abstract. Largely because of its length, Strange Interlude was not performed frequently.