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Third Quarter Delvena Theatre Company at Nahant Public Library Time: 3:00pm Eastern Location: Nahant Public Library
Delvena Theatre Company to present Mourning Becomes Eugene O'Neill at the Nahant Public Library. The Delvena Theatre Company will present an original drama, Mourning Becomes Eugene O'Neill, based on the life of playwright, Eugene O'Neill, Sunday, September 25, at 3:00 pm at the Nahant Public Library, 15 Pleasant Street, Nahant. Part lecture/part performance, the presentation will be followed by a discussion with the audience. Using facts from O'Neill's life, psychological theory about mourning and scenes from O'Neill's great plays, spiced with a bit of Irish wit, actors Lynne Moulton and Loann West will take the audience on a journey into the life and mourning of O'Neill. This Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright had an alcoholic father and brother, and a morphine-addicted mother; yet he wrote such masterpieces as Long Day's Journey into Night, Moon for the Misbegotten, Anna Christie and Mourning Becomes Electra. The play is directed by Joseph Zamparelli, Jr. and features Moulton and West in multiple roles. The Delvena Theatre Company was founded in 1992 and has performed at various venues, most often at the Boston Center for the Arts. The company was nominated for five Independent Reviewers of New England awards. Its production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was on Theatre Mirror's Best List for acting, directing and production. Presentations of Anna Weiss and Beyond Therapy were included on Theatre Mirror's best play list and Blue Heart was placed on Aisle Say's best list. Moulton has performed several roles for Delvena Theatre including Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Sissy in Piece of my Heart. She has also performed in prominent roles at the Lyric Stage, Vanburgh Theatre in London in As You Like It and Richard the Third, in Death and the Maiden for Manchester England's REC Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at Wellesley Summer Theatre in Dancing at Lughnasa, which was included on the Boston Globe's top ten list. She won the Maine Stage Best Actress Award in 1990 for her performance as Blanche Dubois in Streetcar Named Desire. She received her acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art under the direction of Sir Robert Palmer and at Trinity Rep Conservatory. West is a designer as well as an actress. She performed in the Delvena production of Piece of my Heart, acted in The House of Bernarda Alba with Theatre Zone and played a computer virus for Essayons Theatre. She recently designed sets and costumes for Out of the Blue Theater Company's production of Patrick Dabridge's Blinders and is a current IRNE nominee for her costumes in Zeitgeist Stage's production of Far Away. Zamparelli is a professional actor, director and producer. He is a producing /artistic director of Boston Alive, which presents living history land and sea tours of downtown Boston and is co-founder of Daas Theatricals. He is co-directing with Teja Arboleda, and acting in Imperfectly.
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