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dominick balletta
PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATES

RALPH WAITE AND DANIEL McDONALD TO STAR IN INAUGURAL STAGING OF 
EUGENE O'NEILL'S THE PERSONAL EQUATION 

The Playwrights Theater of New York, under the artistic direction of Stephen 
Kennedy Murphy, will begin the third year of its festival of the complete 
works of Eugene O'Neill at the Provincetown Playhouse (133 MacDougal Street) 
in Greenwich Village with the inaugural staging of The Personal Equation. 

Ralph Waite and Daniel McDonald will lead a cast of 20 in O'Neill's 1915 
drama, which will be directed by  Murphy. 

All performances are free.  Performances begin Friday, August 4. Opening 
night is Thursday, August 10. (Curtain is at 8pm - Free Ticket distribution 
begins at 5pm on the day of performance.

Production Team:

Sets - Roher Hanna
Lights - resident designer Matthew E. Adelson
Costumes - Meganne George
Sound - Jill. B.C. DuBoff
Production Stage Manager Elis Arroyo

General Management 
PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATES/Dominick Balletta 

THE PERSONAL EQUATION was written while O'Neill was still a student at 
Harvard. After he shelved the play, the work was never staged in his 
lifetime. Set at the outbreak of World War I, the play concerns a group of 
international ship workers and the choices they face when the world faces war 
- to enlist in separate armies in which they will be counted expendable or to 
band together under the growing anarchist movement. The choice pits a father 
(Ralph Waite), his son (Daniel McDonald) and the woman he loves against each 
other.

RALPH WAITE recently played the role of Willy Loman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN at 
the Alley Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse and King Lear at the new 
Performance Arts Center in Richmond. He continues to work on King Lear at the 
Actors Studio. He also starred in Horton Foote's THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA 
in its premiere at the Signature Theatre. Mr. Waite's credits include a 
number of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions over the past thirty years, 
twenty or so feature films and a number of movies for television. He has 
worked extensively in regional theatres around the country. Mr. Waite, a 
nine-time Emmy Award nominee, is best-known for his role as the father on the 
T.V. series THE WALTONS.

DANIEL MCDONALD, a two-time Tony Award nominee, has appeared on Broadway in 
STEEL PIER and HIGH SOCIETY. Other theater includes FIRST NIGHT, THE TAVERN, 
ALL MY SONS, THE BEAUTIFUL LADY, and CHESTERFIELD, his own creation that he 
developed at The Actors Studio, which has played in L.A. and NY. TV credits 
include "Law & Order," "AMC," "Columbo," "Murder, She Wrote," "NY News," "A 
Year in the Life" and "The Betty Ford Story." Film: Falcon and the Snowman, 
Million Dollar Mystery, At Risk; As Good As Dead; among others and the 
upcoming Let It Be Me.

STEPHEN KENNEDY MURPHY directed the acclaimed world premiere of Eugene 
O'Neill's BREAD AND BUTTER in the Playwrights Theater's 1998 debut season. He 
also recently directed his adaptation of Stravinsky's THE SOLDIER'S TALE at 
Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in April of 2000.

The Playwrights Theater Festival of O'Neill is a chronological exploration of 
O'Neill's complete body of work. The festival, which will last into the next 
decade, will stage all of O'Neill's plays as workshops and full productions. 
Previous seasons have included the acclaimed world premiere staging of 
O'Neill's Bread and Butter and a three-week forum with the late Jose 
Quintero, the preeminent director of O'Neill's plays, reading and discussing 
O'Neill's masterworks.

All performances are free. Every night a door prize of a copy of O'NEILL: 
LIFE WITH MONTE CRISTO by Arthur and Barbara Gelb, will be given away. Free 
tickets are unreserved. Interested audience members should arrive early. 
Ticket distribution begins at 5:00 PM at the Provincetown Playhouse (133 
MacDougal Street). Performances of  THE PERSONAL EQUATION are Monday through 
Saturday. For more information, call the 24 hour O'Neill HotLine (212) 
998-5801, drop us an email or visit the website at 
www.performanceassociates.com