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

Director Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies, People, Places and Things) together with his company Second Half Productions and designer Lizzie Clachan (Far Away) brings a fresh take on Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Long Day’s Journey into Night to the stage.

The starry cast of familiar screen faces is led by Succession’s Brian Cox – making his first West End appearance in almost a decade – as the story’s patriarch James Tyrone. Alongside him are Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects) as wife and mother Mary Tyrone, Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) as older brother James Jr, Alex Lawther (The End of the F***ing World, Black Mirror) as younger brother Edmund, and Louisa Harland (Derry Girls) as the maid Cathleen.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, O’Neill’s autobiographical play stretches over a single day in August 1912, and pictures an unhappy family blaming one another for their failings. Mary’s psychosis due to her morphine addiction, James’s stinginess and James Jr’s licentiousness are all put on trial, and Edmund’s bleak optimism is also called into question.

Actor Brian Cox says: ‘It has long been an ambition of mine to play Eugene O’Neill’s flawed patriarch James Tyrone, and I’m delighted to have the opportunity to do so on a West End stage. I’m a great admirer of Jeremy Herrin’s work and I am looking forward to us delving into O’Neill’s masterpiece together.’

Director Jeremy Herrin says: ‘A great play is always relevant and Long Day’s Journey Into Night is, it’s often argued, the greatest play of the 20th century. With its searing honesty and blistering depth of emotion, it must be up there.

‘What is impossible to argue with is that we have the best cast and, in Lizzie Clachan, one of the most exciting designers in the country, to discover what makes O’Neill’s masterwork relevant for now.

‘I can’t wait to bring this classic to life. I anticipate a feast of fine acting and vivid performances in what I hope to be a high-definition production.’

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