| re: ‘Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work,’ reports The New York Times | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:18 pm EDT 07/04/17 | |
| In reply to: re: ‘Edward Albee’s Final Wish: Destroy My Unfinished Work,’ reports The New York Times - AlanScott 09:14 pm EDT 07/04/17 | |
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| The published (1964, much edited and revised) script has a preface by Donald Gallup (then curator of the O'Neill archives at Yale) and tells the whole story (at least from Yale's perspective). I won't repeat much of the details except that the Mansions (3rd revised) typescript was inadvertently sent to Yale when they were closing up the house in Marblehead. It had a leaf in it saying "Unfinished work. This script to be destroyed in case of my death! Eugene O'Neill." After his death, Carlotta put a 25 year restriction on everything Yale had but later (around when Journey and Poet were published) inquired about any other completed scripts other than Hughie that Yale had. They told her about Mansions and she asked for it. They sent it without the leaf about destroying it. Subsequently she authorized a Swedish translation and production (at the theatre where Journey premiered), and later decided to publish-but not authorize performance-of the script in English (which was the '64 book). [A couple other notes: They had burned up the 1st 2 plays in the cycle (Greed of the Meek and And Give Me Death) in '43. The cycle eventually had 11 plays planned, having been increased 5 times.] | |
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