Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939–1941 and first published posthumously in 1956.
It is widely regarded as his magnum opus and one of the great American plays of the 20th century. It premiered in Sweden in February 1956 and then opened on Broadway in November 1956, winning the Tony Award for Best Play. O'Neill received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama posthumously for Long Day's Journey into Night.
The work is openly autobiographical in nature. The "long day" in the title refers to the setting of the play, which takes place during one day.
Eugene O'Neill:
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century.
O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society.
They struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusion and despair. Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known (Ah, Wilderness!).
Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.
Summary:
The play takes place on a single day in August 1912. The setting is Monte Cristo Cottage, the seaside home of the Tyrones in Connecticut. The four main characters are semi-autobiographical representations of O'Neill, his older brother, and their parents.
The play portrays a family struggling to grapple with the realities and consequences of each member's failings.
The parents and two sons blame and resent each other for various reasons; bitterness and jealousy serve as proxies for ultimately failed attempts at tenderness and compassion.
The family's enduring emotional and psychic stress is fueled by their shared self-analysis, combined with articulate honesty. The story deals with addiction, unfulfilled dreams, moral flaws, and the struggle of family relationships.
The Great American Family at its worst. James Tyrone is an aging actor and skinflint whose miserliness has been the ruin of his family.
His wife, Mary, has been a morphine addict since the birth of their youngest son, Edmund. Their eldest son, Jamie is an alcoholic, unable and unwilling to find work on his own, he has been 'forced' to take up his father's profession.
Edmund, who has been away as a sailor has returned home sick and awaits the doctor's diagnosis of consumption. Each of them is so self-centered, and self-pitying, that they cannot help one another. None of them even know what they want and they can't bear it.
Check out all those pathetic drunk and addict losers bullshitting totally wasted all they long, the playwriter must be a good observer, check out all those pathetic allegedly so-called 'artists' actors 'musicians' authors, writers, scientists, etc. who has fame worldwide.
They are nothing other than huge balloons created by the cult that also owns all the mainstream media and international cooperations.
Those pathetic losers dare to hide deep and dark secrets from the public eye actually because they're all members of the very same fascist global cult, that is a fact.
I'm talkin' about the obvious dark and sinister secret society that is able to control and manipulate human minds and also the fabric of space-time.
Some losers sold their souls to the devil for cheap.
W the people, we're the rulers and we're the boss here.
The Play:
1999, Canada, Drama, Musical
Directors: David Wellington, Diana Leblanc
Stars: William Hutt, Martha Henry, Tom McCamus
Writer: Eugene O'Neill
The Film:
The film version, with an outstanding cast, of the magnum opus of America's premiere playwright, Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill was influenced by Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg's new style of realism, and introduced it to American audiences, thus bringing modern theatre to America.
1962, USA, Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Katharine Hepburn,Ralph Richardson, James Tyrone
Writer: Eugene O'Neill
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