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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Theatre: A memorable trip
Long Day’s Journey into Night makes its mark on GORDON PARSONS
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Bristol Old Vic
4/5
EUGENE O’NEILL left instructions that his painfully autobiographical domestic drama, written in “tears and blood,” should not be published until 25 years after his death and never be produced on stage.
Thankfully, his widow countermanded his wishes and gave the world the modern equivalent of that other epic family drama, King Lear.
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