Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht

01 Apr '26 to 02 Apr '26

Schauspielhaus Bochum / Johan Simons

The Tyrone family's house is blisteringly hot. The only shadows are cast by the upheavals taking place inside: The mother's morphine addiction, the son's consumption, his brother's lifestyle, everyone's alcoholism, the dead third brother.

Dutch premiere

Run time 210 minutes, incl. intermission
Genre Theatre
Language German
Surtitles Dutch, English

Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht

But they don't talk about these things. Instead, everyone sneaks around, lies to each other and makes every effort to avoid the obvious truth. Because despite all the mistrust that smoulders beneath the feigned idyll, these people love each other in all desperation: the fear of losing each other is greater than the will to address the problems.
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Everyone is their own catastrophe. Eugene O'Neill describes with unsparing honesty a day in the life of a family searching for forgiveness and support, but which has long since severed all the lifelines it could reach for.

What remains is the beauty of the chance that lies in the hope that, with one more day, everything can turn out all right.

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