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Long Day's Journey into Night
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Synopsis
David Suchet returns to the West Endin Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer prize-winning masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night, one of the greatest American plays written in the 20th century.
Set in 1912. Following the Tyrone family through a mesmerising day and night, as they battle their demons, their pasts, and one another the play depicts the struggle for survival of each family member as they threaten to drift further into oblivion.
Directed by Anthony Page with designs by Lez Brotherston the cast also includes Laurie Metcalf, Trevor White and Kyle Soller.
David Suchet won both a Whatsonstage.com and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Actor for his most recent West End role in All My Sons. His other recent West End appearances include The Last Confession at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket and Man and Boy at the Duchess Theatre. His extensive stage credits also include appearances at the National and with the RSC. On TV, he is best known for playing the title role in the series Poirot.
Laurie Metcalf was last seen on the London stage at the National Theatre in All My Sons in 2001 and on Broadway in Brighton Beach Memoirs in 2009. She is best known for playing Jackie Harris on TV's Roseanne, for which she is a three-time Emmy Award winner. Other TV roles include The Big Bang Theory, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy. Film credits include the voice of Andy's Mum throughout Pixar's Toy Story trilogy as well as appearances in Scream 2 and Desperately Seeking Susan.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 11 April 2012
Following his recent remarkable West End performances in Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy and Arthur Miller's All My Sons, David Suchet puts even further distance between himself and Hercule Poirot with this beautifully modulated version of Eugene O'Neill's James Tyrone in the mother of all dysfunctional family dramas Long Day's Journey into Night.Suchet's Tyrone is the husk of a great actor, a skinflint who has sold his soul for one big commercial success; his attempts at preserving his self-esteem involve alcoholic delusion and the suffering of his wife, Mary Cavan Tyrone, a morphine addict since giving a difficult birth, and the uneasy bantering of his two grown sons, the failed actor James Tyrone Jr and the consumptive poet and sea-voyager, Edmund.
All four characters are close family portraits, Edmund of O'Neill himself. But it's the poisonous Irish Catholic atmosphere of guilt and retribution, whispered deceits and s...
Latest User Review
FloriaS - 19 August 2012:
I found this boring, quite a few people people left in the intermission. Nothing new or interesting. It had a very small audience....
Cast
David Suchet (James Tyrone)
Laurie Metcalf (Mary Tyrone)
Kyle Soller (Edmund)
Trevor White (Jamie)
Creative
Eugene O'Neill (Author)
Nica Burns (Producer)
Elliot Martin (Producer)
Kim Poster (for Stanhope Productions and Max Weitzenhoffer) (Producer)
Anthony Page (Director)
Lez Brotherston (Design)
Mark Henderson (Lighting)
Gareth Owen (Sound)
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