Review: Long Day's Journey into Night by Ar Rude

by Michael Meigs
Published on May 31, 2009

To attend this production and to watch this cast at work in the carefully tatty Victorian set designed by Scott Guthrie is to enter deep in the troubled psyche of one of America's most successful and most haunted writers.

Eugene O'Neill did not want you to see this astonishing, bleak and deeply moving drama. When he died in a Boston hotel room in 1953, he had left it locked up in the vaults of his publisher Random House with instructions that it was not to be opened for 25 years after his death, and that it was never to be performed. Instead, his third wife Carlotta Monterrey, who had fought with him and protected him …

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