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DVD : A Touch of the Poet (Broadway Theatre Archive)In association with Amazon.comstarring: John Heffernan, Fritz Weaver, Donald Moffat, Carrie Nye, Robert Phalen directed by: Kirk Browning  List Price: $24.99 Amazon.com's Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.50 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780769796246 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0769796249 Label: Kultur Video Manufacturer: Kultur Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kultur Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 30, 2002 Running Time: 150 minutes Studio: Kultur Video Theatrical Release Date: April 24, 1974 Sales Rank: 89077 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Tony Award-winner Fritz Weaver and Emmy-winner Nancy Marchand (Livia in The Sopranos)star in Eugene O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet." Set in a shabby tavern outside Boston in 1828, the play centers on Cornelius Melody (Weaver), a proud Irishman who clings to memories of European gentility. The play was conceived by O'Neill - regarded by many as America's greatest dramatist - as part of a nine-play chronicle spanning 175 years in the life of an American family. LIke other O'Neill works such as "A Moon for the Misbegotten" and "Long Day's Journey into Night," this play explores it's characters' conflicts with reality and illusion, as well as their joys and sorrows in love. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Terrible Production of a Great PlayWhat a shame that this production didn't have a director who knew anything about style, because "A Touch of the Poet" is the only remaining complete play of his planned play cycle "A Tale of Possessors, Self-Dispossessed" which, if it had been completed, would have stood along side the great works of Shakespeare. To direct "A Touch of the Poet," a director has to know where it stands in the cycle. Then and only then can one begin to see the force of this play. What this production has done is to ... Read More Rating: - memories for the illusionistBoston 1828, Eugene O'Neill's play of a proud Irishman, of former nobility, living in his memories the way living was in merry old Europe in years long past. Fritz Weaver(Cornelius Melody) strong willed refuses to allow his wife & daughter to live in the here and now. His independent daughter encounters many verbal skirmishes with Daddy in her attempts to bring him out of his never,never memory lane mind set, without success, while his wife, (Nancy Marchand) condescends to almost a subservient ... Read More Rating: - "A born dreamer with a great raft of dreams."Written from 1935 - 1942, but not published until after the author's death, A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill is the powerfully dramatic story of Con Melody, a tavern-keeper near Boston in 1828. Melody's family in Ireland had managed to rise from their common roots to become, in their own eyes, "gentlemen." When disaster struck and Con Melody lost everything, however, he brought his wife Nora and daughter Sara to the Boston area, where he now runs a shabby tavern while insisting that he is a gentleman ... Read More Rating:  - Neglected Masterpiece"A Touch Of The Poet" is probably the best O'Neill play you've never seen or read, and so it is fortunate that this production has been preserved by the Broadway Theatre Archive. The two leads, Roberta Maxwell and Fritz Weaver, are amazing, and Nancy Marchand is splendid as the passively adoring and long-suffering wife. The story, which is set in the era of the rise of Andrew Jackson, has a startlingly contemporary feel, evoking both the immigrant experience as well as the rise of the American industrial ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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