Desire Under the Elms

Desire Under the Elms is a new staging of Eugene O’Neill’s classic family tragedy, directed by Ebenezer Bamgboye and led by Zackary Momoh. Eben and his half-brothers labour on their family farm while imagining very different futures, but the unexpected return of their formidable father Ephraim—and the woman accompanying him—throws inheritance, loyalty and desire into violent conflict. Inspired by Greek tragedy, O’Neill’s drama explores possession, passion and the struggle between emotional impulse and reason in a household where land and love become dangerously entangled.