• The Play Podcast - 080 - Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill

  • May 10 2024
  • Length: 53 mins
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The Play Podcast - 080 - Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill

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  • Episode 080: Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

    Host: Douglas Schatz
    Guest: Jeremy Herrin

    Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.

    Eugene O’Neill wrote his autobiographical magnum opus, Long Day’s Journey into Night, in 1941, but because of the personal revelations it contained he gave explicit instructions that it was not to be published until 25 years after his death and that it should never be staged. In the event his widow allowed both to occur in 1956, only three years after his death, when the play won O’Neill his fourth Pulitzer prize.

    As we record this episode, a powerful new production of the play is playing in London, with Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson heading the cast. I am delighted and privileged to talk with the production’s director, Jeremy Herrin, about O’Neill’s monumental play.
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