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Eugene O’Neill’s inhumane America is still with us today
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell writes that the Irish Repertory Theatre’s 2026 production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape demonstrates how the dehumanizing class system criticized in the play persists in America today.
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