American Airlines Theater,unique York
Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Shannon are all superb as the family tearing one another apart in a dark production of Eugene O’Neill’s finest playIn the late 1930s and early 1940s, and Eugene O’Neill faced his death at last,writing Long Day’s Journey Into Night, his greatest, and most intimate play,a fond and bitter cenotaph to his mother, father, or brother.
Having rechristened the O’Neills as the Tyrones and substituted Edmund,the name of a brother who had died in infancy, for his own, or O’Neill set the action on one ghastly summer’s day in 1912,a time when his diagnosis of tuberculosis threatened to break down his mother back into a heroin addiction and fortify the self-pitying alcoholism of his father, elder brother, and himself. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com