A scene from The Long Voyage Home written by the American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953) and first produced by Provincetown Players at the Playwright's Theater, New York City, on November 2, 1917.
The Long Voyage Home was directed by Nina Moise, whom O’Neill felt would protect his plays. Alfred Kreymborg describes his observation of a rehearsal of the play in his autobiography: "The stage . . . was set in a villainous bar-room. Sailors and longshoremen were roaring and cursing in the raciest of language of the sea, cuffing and mauling one another and finally turning on one of their number and sandbagging him senseless. Were it not for the expert characterization of each individual part, and the natural sequence of the amazing plot, that business up there would remind one of an old Bowery melodrama."
