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Tag Archives: Eugene O’Neill
Long Day’s Journey Into Night leads February’s Top 10 new London shows
From O’Neill and flamenco to punk and Pippin. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Wyndham’s Theatre
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
Ten great plays set in summer
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
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
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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Tagged alcoholic, boarding school, doctor who, drama, Edward Albee, Eugene O’Neill, family, freud, landor theatre, london, matt smith, michael grandage, play, polly stenham, royal court, tennessee williams, that face, theatre, west end
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