Long Day's Journey Into Night July 26, 2008

One of America's greatest plays by one of its greatest playwrights, Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece, "Long Day's Journey into Night", runs at The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum from July 26 though September 27.
Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece is a searing drama about his home life that is one of the most challenging and moving theatrical experiences of the last century. In August, 1912 the four Tyrones gather in their summer home in New London, Connecticut, where they embark on an extraordinary psychological journey over the course of one long, hot summer day. Each family member battles his own past in four remarkable personal struggles that reveal the family's downward spiral of alcoholism and drug addiction. The play is so personal and revealing that O'Neill forbade it to be published or performed until after his death. His widow contravened the order and the play was published in 1955, two years after his death, and performed on Broadway a year later - winning the Pulitzer Prize for O'Neill posthumously.
"We live in a society where most of us have been touched in some way by substance abuse," commented Geer. "Here is a writer who explores it to the core and anyone who sees this production will be affected by how addiction shapes a family's life. I feel strongly that this play needs to be seen, especially today. Perhaps it will spark viewers' recognition and start them thinking. As Mary Tyrone says in the play, 'The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future, too.' "
"Long Day's Journey into Night" runs in rotating repertory with "As You Like It", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Macbeth" and "The School for Scandal" at The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre located in rustic Topanga Canyon, midway between Malibu and the San Fernando Valley. For a complete schedule, tickets and more information, call (310) 455-3723 or visit online at www.theatricum.com.

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