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Public Domain #5: Michael Laibson directs Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill

The Tank and Full Circle Theatre Company are producing a monthly staged reading series featuring plays in the public domain with no copyright restrictions. Once a play has entered public domain, it belongs to everyone. It becomes ours to do with as we please. As such, we thought it'd be cool if we offered up some of the creative decision-making to our audiences. We've selected our first seven plays, and seven directors with very different approaches. We had our audiences assign a play to each director.

Over 50 years before Neil Young sang about a "Heart of Gold," Eugene O'Neill wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a prostitute who could make nuns weep with her pureness. If you liked this story when it was called Pretty Woman, then you're bound to love it when the dialogue is actually well written. But whereas Julia ends up with a millionaire, Anna lands a sailor. Some would say that love conquers all, others would call that a raw deal.

Michael Laibson is an Emmy winning Producer of Daytime Dramas. Over the past twenty years, he has led the creative teams at All My Children, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, and Another World. He started in the business as an actor, working at many theatres in Los Angeles and New York, in productions ranging from classical to musical.Michael's love for Performance Arts comes from his zealous need to communicate how and why passionate relationships are what make life ... livable.