Word: neill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AUTHOR: EUGENE O'NEILL...
...Huntington Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece Long day's Journey Into Night is a perfect example of why America's greatest playwright has fallen into disrepute among critics in the past several years...
...problem: As O'Neill wrote it, Journey was to be much more sophisticated than unrelenting tension. It is about explosion. It is about motion. It is a rare glimpse at a family's life when all the pent up anger, frustration, and unspoken truths are suddenly released...
...begins with a scene between the father James Tyrone (Jack Aranson) and the mother Mary Cavan Tyrone (Patricia Conolly). The actors' forced voices and exaggerated facial expressions at first mislead the audience into thinking that they are watching a high-society comedy or drama instead of anything resembling O'Neill...
...Huntington's production is not unconvincing, but director Gilbert's failure to very the onstage mood makes for three hours of restless seat-sliding. Perhaps a more traditional interpretation would have been more successful than the Huntington's, whose only connection with O'Neill is the occasional blast of the fog horn that reminds the audience of the setting...