Anna Christie (Liam Neeson, repro)

The legendary 1993 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill’s early, Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalistic masterpiece 'Anna Christie' was mounted by the Roundabout Theatre Company at the Criterion Center Stage Right. The fog-shrouded, visceral plot follows a young Swedish-American woman who seeks refuge with her estranged, old coal-barge captain father to escape a traumatic past of forced prostitution, falling into a volatile, fierce romance with a shipwrecked Irish sailor who knows nothing of her history. This critically lauded production achieved theatrical immortality due to the unmatched dramatic chemistry of Liam Neeson in his roaring Broadway debut as Mat Burke and Natasha Richardson’s fragile, luminous Anna.