All A-Bored
“Well, that certainly was what it was.”
That’s what I said to myself as I walked away from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum last night after seeing Early Plays, a collection of three of Eugene O’Neill’s one-act Glencairn Plays adapted and directed by experimental theater artist Richard Maxwell. The production isn’t just the West Coast premiere of this particular show, but it’s also the San Francisco debut of two major New York avant-garde theater companies, the Wooster Group and Maxwell’s own New York City Players, who collaborated this Obie Award-winning piece that debuted in Brooklyn last year.
