LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
29/06/2010 - 1/08/2010
Sydney Theatre - In his magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning play,
Long Day's Journey Into Night, writer
Eugene O'Neill paints a vivid and disturbing portrait of a family tormented by the past and paralysed by the prospect of the future. Actor James Tyrone and his wife Mary and their two adult children, have retreated to their Connecticut holiday house where they will be ensconced for the summer. During the course of the 'long day' of the play's title this family battles to unearth, and conceal, a series of appalling truths.
Rarely staged in Australia but frequently considered O'Neill's major masterpiece, Long Day's Journey Into Night, is a largely autobiographical work of gut-wrenching honesty and astonishing beauty. In celebration of the play's enormous thematic and emotional landscape, this production will unfold on the grand stage of the Sydney Theatre before transferring to the Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon.
Director Andrew Upton Cast William Hurt, Robyn Nevin
Bookings (02) 9250 1777 or www.sydneytheatre.com.au
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