One character in this play raises her son on stories of her fiancee Gordon Shaw, who died in World War I. That son, also named Gordon, is the product of an affair with Edmund Darrell and is born after the main character aborts her child by Sam Evans following her discovery of hereditary insanity in the Evans family.
In the closing scene of this play, one character tells another to rest, to which she responds "Thank you Father - have I been wicked?" That occurs in this play shortly after another character departs to marry Madeline Arnold. A major aspect of this play's original staging involved the freezing of the action so that characters could deliver short soliloquys that revealed their thoughts. Another character in this play dies after suffering a stroke while watching his son win a rowing race. One character in this play raises her son on stories of her fiancee Gordon Shaw, who died in World War I. That son, also named Gordon, is the product of an affair with Edmund Darrell and is born after the main character aborts her child by Sam Evans following her discovery of hereditary insanity in the Evans family. Ultimately, it is Charles Marsden who ends up caring for Nina Leeds at the end of, for 10 points, what long play written by Eugene O'Neill?
In the closing scene of this play, one character tells another to rest, to which she responds "Thank you Father - have I been wicked?"
Strange Interlude