Mourning Becomes Electra Characters

In a play full of characters described as "statues" or compared to breathing imitations of portraits, there's no character that tears things up, turns things over, and transforms herself like Lavin...

In Mourning Becomes Electra, every character has their share of emotional problems. But if you held a contest for the most rattled, confused, and downright tragically broken and bonkers character,...

If you check out the list of characters, that's exactly what it says. O'Neill's including Mannon's formal military rank suggests how much importance Ezra places on formality and ritual. We also lea...

This play has no shortage of villains, but we nominate Christine Mannon as the worst. Modeled after Clytemnestra in the Oresteia, she's the young and beautiful wife of old General Ezra who's tired...

What's not to love about Adam Brant? Dashing, romantic, a man who lives a life of adventure upon the open sea—is there anything that we're forgetting? Oh, right: he's an adulterous accomplice to...

You rarely see one of these siblings in the trilogy without the other one being there, too. Hazel—a character O'Neill created just to create a little added tension between Orin and Lavinia—and...

Slow and steady, and usually drunk and singing—that's Seth Beck with. An elderly working-class groundskeeper (a fancier term for gardener) who's been with the Mannons for 60 years, Seth's one of...

There's a whole list of these folks. You've got Amos and Louisa Ames with their cousin Minnie in Homecoming. In The Hunted, there's Josiah and Emma Borden, Dr. Joseph Blake, and the Reverend Everet...