With a limited run, groups won’t want to miss out on the chance to experience one of the 20th century’s great plays
Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville are set to reprise their roles in Richard Eyre’s acclaimed production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, following a sold out run as part of Bristol Old Vic’s 250th Anniversary season.
Considered one of the most powerful American plays of the 20th century, the production will play a strictly limited 10-week West End season at Wyndham’s Theatre from 27 January-8 April 2018.
The play follows the Tyrone family at their summer home in 1912, who, haunted by past events, are forced to face the truth of the present. As the audience follows them through the day, two gradual revelations come to light, testing the bonds of a family caught in the cycle of love and resentment.
One of only a handful of actors to have won an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy, Jeremy Irons plays James Tyrone, with award-winning actress Lesley Manville playing his wife, Mary.
Five-time Olivier Award winner Richard Eyre directs. Eyre’s most noted theatre productions include Hamlet with Jonathan Pryce in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989, Richard III with Ian Mckellen and King Lear with Ian Holm.
Richard Eyre is joined by set designer Rob Howell who has designed sets and costumes for numerous plays and musicals in the UK, in London and on Broadway over a 20-year period.
Tickets start from £12.50 and are available at www.LongDaysThePlay.com
