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...Miserly actor James Tyrone (played here by Brian Cox), his addicted wife Mary and their two damaged sons all love each other deeply. That’s the tragedy....
...When we meet, he is mid-rehearsal for a West End staging of Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill’s harrowing 1941 masterpiece about a family tearing itself apart....
...“These plans must never become law,” said Eugene Reavey, 73, from County Tyrone, whose brothers were killed by a loyalist gang in 1976....
...Based on author Eugene O’Neill’s own parents, brother and self, they talk, argue and tear themselves apart over a long, claustrophobic summer day and evening....
...Though the production values come from another era — literally — the same applies to an archive performance on BroadwayHD ($8.99 a month for more than 300 shows; free trial), Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for...
...There are many casualties in Eugene O’Neill’s harrowing, near-autobiographical 1941 drama about a family tearing itself apart, but perhaps the biggest one is truth....
...Rob Howell’s design locates the Tyrone family of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece in a world at once natural and quasi-mystical....
...“It’s called Long Day’s Journey into Night, not Long Night’s Journey into Day,” the Irish actor says of Eugene O’Neill’s three-and-a half-hour masterpiece, currently playing on Broadway....
...Richard Eyre has called Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical magnum opus “the saddest play ever written”, which is overdoing things only a little....
...Eugene O’Hare is a discreet foil to him as David Craig, with whom Pyper consummates his love on an island in Lough Erne during the furlough sequence....
...As Jim Tyrone in Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, however, he passes through several of the torments of hell, and the agonised, conflicted vulnerability beneath the worldly-wise, hard-drinking...
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