Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Overview

Long Day’s Journey into Night is one of the greatest American plays of the twentieth century. In his supreme masterpiece, Eugene O’Neill paints a vivid and compelling portrait of a family tormented by the past and paralysed by the prospect of the future.

Set in August 1912, the action covers one devastating day from morning through to midnight, at the Connecticut home of the Tyrone family where the mist is rolling in from the sea. During the course of the ‘long day’ of the play’s title, actor James Tyrone, his wife Mary and their two adult sons James and Edmund, battle to expose, and conceal, a series of appalling truths.

Following his critically-acclaimed performance in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in 2010, for which he won both the Whatsonstage and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Actor, David Suchet takes the towering role of James Tyrone. He is most famous for his television role as Agatha Christie's Poirot and his stage credits include The Last Confession, Once in a Lifetime, Amadeus, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and What a Performance!

Laurie Metcalf is widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris in the ABC sitcom Roseanne. Other television work includes The Big Bang Theory, Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy. She is a three-time Emmy Award winner, as well as being nominated for two Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Kyle Soller won this year’s Outstanding Newcomer in The Evening Standard Theatre Awards after receiving much acclaim for his role in The Faith Machine at the Royal Court. He is soon to appear on screen in the forthcoming film Anna Karenina with Keira Knightly and Jude Law.

Trevor White’s theatre credits include Coriolanus at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Enron at Chichester, The Royal Court and in the West End. He appeared in the BAFTA award-winning BBC period drama Downton Abbey.

Rosie Sansom’s theatre credits include Cymbeline at the Arts Theatre, She played Countess Rosalina in the The Borgias and will soon be appearing in the upcoming teen film Love Bite.

Anthony Page has directed both on Broadway and the West End stage, as well as for film and television. His most recent theatre credits include an acclaimed production of Design for Living at The Old Vic, Waiting for Godot on Broadway, Rosmersholm with Helen McCrory at the Almeida and The Lady from Dubuque with Maggie Smith at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. He received the Tony Award for Best Direction for his production of A Doll’s House. His television work includes the BBC’s critically acclaimed 1990s period drama Middlemarch.

Eugene O’Neill was the first and only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for literature and he won the Pulitzer Prize three times. His hugely influential plays include The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra and A Moon For the Misbegotten.