On Wednesday, Yale University Press will publish "Exorcism," a long-lost one-act play by Eugene O'Neill based on the playwright's own attempt to commit suicide as a young man. My review of the published play will run in Sunday's paper. In the meantime, check out this video, produced by The New Yorker to accompany its own publication of the play last October. It features actor Tommy Schrider performing a scene in which Ned, the central character and stand-in for O'Neill, describes a particularly harrowing experience:
--Colin Dabkowski
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