CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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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O’NEILL left instructions that his painfully autobiographical domestic drama, written in “tears and blood,” should not be published until 25 years after his death and never be produced on stage.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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