Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill · 1956
O'Neill's autobiographical masterpiece, written in tears and blood by his own account. One day in the life of the Tyrone family as the fog rolls in: a morphine-addicted mother, an alcoholic father, two sons who can't escape. He ordered it sealed for twenty-five years after his death. His wife published it three years later.
The case against
Four acts, one day, and the same three arguments circling like the fog: Mary's morphine, James's miserliness, Edmund's consumption. The repetition is the method, but it asks you to sit through each accusation four or five times, and on the page, without actors, the long recriminations can read as transcript rather than drama.
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