Tag Archives: Eugene O’Neill

Long Day’s Journey Into Night leads February’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on February 14, 2018 by mkmswain

From O’Neill and flamenco to punk and Pippin. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here Advertisements

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Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Wyndham’s Theatre

Posted on February 7, 2018 by mkmswain

Though a long journey indeed, Richard Eyre’s is a vital revival, giving vigour to Eugene O’Neill’s mighty, semi-autobiographical work and making all the more poignant this tormented but fast-talking family’s gradual dwindling into a despairing silence. Read my full BroadwayWorld review here

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Ten great plays set in summer

Posted on July 28, 2015 by mkmswain

To coincide with the opening of Three Days in The Country, Patrick Marber’s new adaption of Turgenev, I’ve rounded up 10 other great plays set in the summer, from bucolic romance and adolescent yearning to fiery conflict and family combustion. Read my … Continue reading →

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Ah, Wilderness!, Young Vic

Posted on April 22, 2015 by mkmswain

Coming-of-age comedy, moonlit romance and a gentle folk soul: can this really be Eugene O’Neill? The master of darkness makes a surprising departure with semi-autobiographical 1933 work Ah, Wilderness!, which visits staple tropes – addiction, family strife, responsibility and regret … Continue reading →

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The war at home

Posted on November 16, 2013 by mkmswain

Back in 2007, Polly Stenham caused a furore with her debut play That Face. Not only did it mark a change of direction for the Royal Court by turning an unflinching gaze upon the upper-middle-class world familiar to many of its … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Eugene O’Neill

Long Day’s Journey Into Night leads February’s Top 10 new London shows

Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Wyndham’s Theatre

Ten great plays set in summer

Ah, Wilderness!, Young Vic

The war at home

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