BROOKLYN, N.Y.—“Long Day’s Journey Into Night” is considered by many to be one of Eugene O'Neill’s finest plays, if not the finest. This production of the play, transplanted from the Bristol Old Vic in Britain, has weathered crossing the “pond” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
It is certainly O‘Neill’s most autobiographical work, for the Tyrone family depicted is clearly based upon O’Neill’s own. Here, James Tyrone, Sr. (Jeremy Irons), the former theater matinee idol, is shown with his wife and two sons in their summer home somewhere in a Northeastern port town.
