Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht
Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht is one of the most poignant family dramas in theatre history. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Eugene O'Neill shows how love, addiction and guilt are inextricably intertwined. What unfolds is a merciless but deeply human confrontation. Painful, recognisable and moving.
Dutch premiere
Run time 210 minutes, incl. intermission
Genre Theatre
Language German
Surtitles Dutch, English
Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht
On a scorching summer day, the Tyrone family gathers at their country home. Beneath the veneer of domestic tranquillity, tensions simmer that have gone unspoken for years. The mother struggles with a morphine addiction, the father with his past and his fears, the sons with illness, alcohol and unfulfilled expectations. Everyone knows what is wrong, but no one dares to face the truth.
In Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht, Eugene O'Neill describes with ruthless honesty how people hold on to each other — not despite, but because of their shortcomings. Love proves to be as compelling as it is destructive. What remains is the hope that with one more day, everything might turn out differently. -|-Director Johan Simons presents this classic family drama as an intense psychological portrait, in which the unspoken weighs ever heavier. With Pierre Bokma and Elsie de Brauw in the leading roles, a slowly escalating confrontation unfolds that offers no way out, except perhaps hope — however fragile.
Credits
cast Pierre Bokma (James Tyrone), Elsie de Brauw (Mary Cavan Tyrone, his wife), Guy Clemens (James Tyrone junior, their older son), Alexander Wertmann (Edmund Tyrone, their younger son), Konstantin Bühler (butler), Django Gantz (ghost)
direction Johan Simons
set design Eva Veronica Born
costume design Katrin Aschendorf
lighting design Bernd Felder
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dramaturgy Marvin L.T. Müller
assistant director David Goldmann
set assistant Ioana Isabela Voicu
costume assistant Una Güth, Jana Kuhlemeier
director's assistant Jana Helena Kirbisch
costume assistant Lilith Kürten
stage manager Nora Köhler
surtitles Isabell Weiland
language coaching Roswita Dierck
subtitles Holger Rademacher
