Desire Under the Elms

On Broadway, he also appeared in a 2009 revival of O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms.”

O’Neill’s work was vital to any understanding of Dennehy – Falls also directed him in productions of Hughie, A Touch of the Poet and Desire Under the Elms – and he claimed to concur with the playwright’s mordant, ravaged vision.

“Hollywood never quite knew what to do with her,” said Robert Falls, who directed Gugino in O’Neill’s feverishly operatic “Desire Under the Elms.”

Also superb were all three principals in the stripped-down, inventive version of “Desire Under the Elms,” directed by Fred Abrahamse.

She won the Critics' Circle Award in 2012 for most promising newcomer for Desire Under the Elms at the Lyric Hammersmith.