Long Day's Journey Into Night

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Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the tragic Tyrone family, presented in a controversial production by Jonathan Miller. Under Miller's direction, the characters interrupt each other much like normal conversation, thereby both shortening and dramatically heightening the action. The production aired as a segment of "Broadway on Showtime," and later as an "American Playhouse" presentation.

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The secret is out: Hollywood for much of the past two decades has been hiding a great theater actress in Jessica Lange, and it has taken London's West End to allow her stage gifts to fully shine.

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The secret is out: Hollywood for much of the past two decades has been hiding a great theater actress in Jessica Lange , and it has taken London’s West End to allow her stage gifts to fully shine.

Nearly four years ago, Lange returned, under Peter Hall’s direction, to her 1992 Broadway role as Blanche DuBois — without in any way recycling the earlier performance. That achievement can now be seen as mere preparation for her current and fearsome endeavor, Eugene O’Neill’s Mary Tyrone.

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Do Blanche and Mary collectively make Lange the high priestess of pain? Apparently so, and why not: Whether collapsing in loneliness amid the fogbound house Mary will never call home, or transforming herself into the “mad ghost” referred to by husband James (Charles Dance), Lange laces into a marathon assignment with abandon, courage and genuine stage smarts. Indeed, the only real problem posed by her performance is what she could possibly do for an encore. Having inherited two of Jessica Tandy’s defining roles so far, why not make it a hat trick and have a go at Amanda Wingfield? She’s got the gift.

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For now, let’s just be thankful that Lange’s affection for the stage is strong, and for a production from Robin Phillips (directing the play for the third time) that — for all its inconsistencies — knows how to show off its star. That’s not to suggest that this “Long Day’s Journey” is an exercise in vanity, however much this Mary’s doings suggest a seasoned narcissist; if anything, it’s the opposite.

Whereas the West End’s new “Caretaker” seemed content to let Michael Gambon get away with near-murder, the less experienced Lange gives an infinitely more disciplined performance. There hasn’t been a truer, less show-offy local display of distaff bravura since Judi Dench in “Amy’s View.”

Traditionally with this play, one talks first about its Tyrone, the miserly and ill-advisedly acquisitive thespian paterfamilias who presides — often drunkenly — over a dissolute older son, Jamie (Paul Rudd), and a consumptive younger one (Paul Nicholls), not to mention a wife wafting in and out of lucidity even as her mind is wrenched every which way in time. (So undervalued was the Mary in the 1986 Broadway revival, with Jack Lemmon, that co-star Bethel Leslie got a Tony nod in the supporting actress category.)

But it isn’t just Lange’s allure as a visiting film name, the latest of many to hit the London theater this year, that finds her dominating proceedings. There’s something decidedly stolid and — at first, anyway — underpowered about Dance’s robust, silver-haired Tyrone, no matter how much he paws his rattled wife in a liaison that, rather startlingly, still has a clear sexual component.

Dance catches the bitter comedy of a line like, “It’s you who are leaving us,” as he derides the doped-up Mary’s desire to keep her brood forever by her side. But his heavy-lidded demeanor flares into life only in the last of the play’s three acts, during which Mary is heard solely as a foot-heavy phantasm prior to her reappearance at the end. Acknowledging Tyrone’s ruin by the very play that made him (the part, of course, is a thinly veiled sketch of O’Neill’s own actor-father and his career treading the boards in “The Count of Monte Cristo”), Dance eventually reaches the depths of the self-acknowledged hack. “It’s a late day for regrets,” says Tyrone, but Dance does in the end arrive there while nonetheless leaving one in mind of a male lead less prone to the slow burn.

The two Tyrone sons allowed for an indelible double-act back in 1986 from Peter Gallagher (Edmund) and Kevin Spacey (Jamie) in the Jonathan Miller staging that flopped on Broadway before storming London. The present go-round’s pair of Pauls, Rudd and Nicholls, have yet to scorch the stage.

A bearded Rudd, looking heftier than usual, has a rather persistently contempo presence as the gambling cynic Jamie. Nicholls, a British soap opera actor who has impressed before onstage, could dispense with a feeble cough that mars an otherwise fiercely committed rendering of the playwright’s alter ego, Edmund — the Baudelaire-quoting man of feeling who is “a little in love with death.” Like Dance, both boys come into their own in the shared third-act face-off that remains a lastingly honest and brutal assessment of sibling unrest. “I love you more than I hate you,” confesses Jamie, here seen alternately cradling and strangling Edmund. And Rudd pierces the psychic chaos behind Jamie’s avuncular “hi, kid” hail-fellow-well-met rhetoric.

If “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” can be encapsulated at all — Richard Eyre has described it as “the saddest play ever written” — it’s as the seminal commingling of hatred and love. Rudd and Nicholls exactly capture that familial flashpoint, with Jamie on this occasion doing a neat post-confessional jig while awaiting absolution from his hyperventilating aesthete-brother.

Maybe all three men are at their best late on because they no longer have to compete with Lange, who, among other accomplishments, gives the lie to the conception that Hollywood stars soft-pedal their stage personae.

At first, you notice the hands, quietly and unfussily in constant motion and composed of fingers that, says Mary, surveying her body as if it were the enemy, are “ugly … maimed and crippled.” How does this square with the great beauty that was Mary whom James boasts of (and Lange still is)? It’s in tune with her morphine-fueled perceptions that Mary’s sense of her flesh should be as fraught as her aggrieved mind.

As Lange communicates the role, Mary is living a double lie — concerned for her family, Edmund especially, yet a solipsist in matters of the self; anxious for the future and yet forever seduced back into the past. “I’m not (bitter),” she proclaims late in act two, her protestation fair game for someone both victimizer as well as victim.

Much talked-about in that final act, Mary finally retakes her position amid Simon Higlett’s beautiful dreamscape of a set, the blue-gray walls as liquefied and evanescent (there’s a pictureless frame) as its heroine’s shattered psyche. “The mad scene, enter Ophelia,” cracks Jamie, while an increasingly sickly Edmund crawls across the floor in front of his mother.

But Mary has forsaken the here and now as if succumbing to the encroaching New England fog, her shriek at Edmund’s report of his consumption quickly snuffed out. “I was so happy … for a time,” she says dreamily in one of dramatic literature’s most celebrated final lines. And so “Long Day’s” at last closes, as it must, cathartically, borne aloft by a performance one will remember for all time.

Lyric Theater, London; 916 seats; £35 ($50) top

  • Production: A Bill Kenwright presentation of the Eugene O'Neill play in three acts. Directed by Robin Phillips.
  • Crew: Sets and costumes; Simon Higlett; lighting, Paul Pyant; sound, Matt McKenzie. Opened, reviewed Nov. 21, 2000. Running time: 3 HOURS, 35 MIN.
  • Cast: James Tyrone - Charles Dance Mary Tyrone - Jessica Lange James Tyrone Jr. (Jamie) - Paul Rudd Edmund Tyrone - Paul Nicholls Cathleen - Olivia Colman

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Long Day's Journey Into Night starring Michael Shannon, Jessica Lange: EW Stage review

Eugene O’Neill is not for everyone. The great playwright’s most personal and revered masterpiece is Long Day’s Journey into Night , and the Roundabout Theatre Company’s star-studded revival at the American Airlines Theatre is three and a half hours of bile, bitterness, and regret, spewed by a family of addicts. A circular firing squad shooting malignant invective, the Tyrone family — father James, mother Mary, ne’er-do-well older son Jamie, and sickly younger son Edmund — is hallowed ground for theater actors. And while Michael Shannon, who plays Jamie, recently called the challenge an invitation to an elite “ secret society ,” director Jonathan Kent’s new production feels weathered instead of raw, hollow instead of potent.

The story behind Long Day’s Journey is essential to its appreciation. O’Neill based the hard-drinking Irish-American Tyrone family on his own, a task so emotionally and psychologically draining that he insisted the play was never staged in his lifetime. Like James, his own father had been a successful but ultimately unfulfilled stage actor. Like Mary, his mother had never recovered from a family tragedy and drifted into the fog of morphine addiction. Like Jamie, his own older brother struggled with the bottle, and O’Neill himself suffered from tuberculosis, the same illness that plagues Edmund, the baby of the family with a heart of a poet. O’Neill’s family summered in Connecticut, and the play is set in the Tyrones’ slightly run-down seaside house over one day in 1912. Upon his death in 1953, O’Neill’s wife skirted his wishes to keep the play in the vault, and the 1956 Broadway production with Fredric March (James) and Jason Robards (Jamie) won a Tony Award and a Pulitzer. Robards eventually graduated to play the elder Tyrone, and the play’s “secret society” of actors came to include Katharine Hepburn (who played Mary in the 1962 film), Jack Lemmon, and Kevin Spacey. Vanessa Redgrave won a Tony for a 2003 revival that also starred Philip Seymour Hoffman.

So it’s a daunting literary and theatrical legacy — four actors probing the marrow of these characters’ souls, lashing out at the supposed loved ones whose most unforgivable crime is bearing witness to their personal shortcomings. “None of us can help the things life has done to us,” says Mary at one point. “They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”

That line is not just the play’s theme, but a relentless drum beat, augmented by the disorienting effects of booze and drugs. Over and over, the characters say horrible things to each other, then apologize for saying horrible things, then poke a sharp stick in the wound one more time. There is no escape from the “morbid craziness,” except the thick fog that literally drifts in off the water and figuratively clouds their minds with each additional drink or dose.

In the Roundabout’s production, the living-room staging is ingeniously practical and elegant, with a majestic old stairwell and sheer curtains that flutter in the breeze while the purring of the waves waft over the proceedings. The room’s coziness is marred only by the slightly askew windows, which lack 90-degree angles and subtly underscore the off-kilter family dynamic.

At the center of the domestic storm is Jessica Lange, who played Mary during a 2000 run in London and has a masterful grasp of the character’s fragility — an intuitive strength after playing similar women in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie . There is such confusion in Mary, such buried resentment, and Lange’s ability to portray a woman who is barely more than a ghost provides the story with enormous pathos. It’s nice to have an authentic Irishman playing James, but Gabriel Byrne’s patriarch feels subdued. He’s hardly a pushover, but he’s also much less imposing than previous portrayals. That calibration might be calculated, in deference to John Gallagher Jr. (a Tony winner for Spring Awakening ) and Shannon, but except for when the latter comes alive in the final act, there is a surprising distance and disconnect — between the actors and their characters, between the actors and the audience. Is it just a natural effect of the deepening stupor of the day’s drinking? Or do the actors admire O’Neill’s words and feel honored to be saying them, but don’t necessarily believe in them? O’Neill wrote Long Day’s Journey into Night around 1941, but this might be the first major Broadway production that feels old. C+

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Academy Award-winning star power lights up this passionate production of Eugene O'Neill's timeless American classic! In the height of a sweltering summer, the Tyrone family is about to explode with simmering tensions and suppressed truths that can no longer be held. Wealthy but unsatisfied former actor James (Jack Lemmon, Glengarry Glen Ross) lives with his morphine addict wife, Mary (Bethel Leslie, In Cold Blood), and their two tormented sons, Jamie (Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects) and Edmund (Peter Gallagher, TV's The O.C.). As nightfall approaches, truth and madness fight for control over a family tearing itself apart. A landmark production from theater legend Jonathan Miller, this searing drama is a bold, electrifying powerhouse you'll never forget!

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Jack Lemmon (James Tyrone) Bethel Leslie (Mary Tyrone) Peter Gallagher (Edmund Tyrone) Kevin Spacey (Jamie Tyrone) Jodie Lynne McClintock (Cathleen)

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Eugene O'Neill's award-winning and classic play about a day in the life of a dysfunctional family controlled by their addictions gets a staged version made for TV. Past, present, and future discussions about life, human relations, and family problems are all discussed by the Tyrone family from the early hours in the morning up until the final minutes of the night, revealing failures, lost hopes, possible dreams, and all sorts of memories that prevent them from changing their current sad situation.

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This is a production of the play Long Day’s Journey Into Night (by Eugene O’Neill ), 4 th August – 4 th October 1986, at Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London .

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  22. Long Day's Journey into Night (disambiguation)

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