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| Tao House |
Returned for a play by Clifford Odets, "Golden Boy" at the Barn Playhouse on Sunday and was pleasantly surprised at how much I appreciated it. Odets is viewed as sharing in the O'Neill tradition, as this play appeared on Broadway, after "O'Neill's departure. William Holden starred in the original movie. I prepared myself by reminding myself how I had liked Joyce Carol Oates essay on boxing in America, and how it is the subject of Homer and how American it is, and that is where I am: America But it was not about boxing; it was about exploitation of an individual for profit and about the conflict between the arts and the
physical sportif events in America...or in an individual, who is the product of the "Bonaparte" family, and whose father represents an old "aristocracy" and he has to survive and triumph in the seedy world. It has a tragic outcome by betrayal of the young man's namesake, and betrayal of his own giftedness as a musican on the violin, but nevertheless, thought provoking and good theater, and well enacted on the lawn, in the barn.
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The home Carlotta and Eugene O'Neill made their own, after he won the Noble Prize.
He is the only American playwright to be given that honor. |
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| Good luck at the door. |
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| The view from their living room |
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| The living room,, purchased at Gumps in San Francisco to furnish their home after returning from the Far East. |
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| A corner of the livingroom where the library is located... |
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| One of the patios |
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| The Music Room Eugene O'Neill played the piano |
The music room - one corner
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| An aerial view of their property on top of a hill surrounded by hills |
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| The architectural drawings of the house |
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