During a talk with her father's mistress, Marthy, the title character reveals that she lived as a prostitute in Saint Louis and had been to prison.
During a talk with her father's mistress, Marthy, the title character reveals that she lived as a prostitute in Saint Louis and had been to prison. The play opens at "Johnny-the-Priest's" Saloon on the New York waterfront, where the captain of the Simeon Winthrop has docked. Characters include the bartender Larry, the deckhand Johnson, and the young stoker Mat Burke, who falls in love with the title character, the daughter of the ship captain Chris Christopherson. FTP, identify this 1922 drama by Eugene O'Neill.
During a talk with her father's mistress, Marthy, the title character reveals that she lived as a prostitute in Saint Louis and had been to prison.
{Anna Christie}