On a fateful summer’s day, a family is caught in a cycle of love and resentment, haunted by the past yet unable to face the present.
As day turns to night, each member indulges in their vices; as the truth unravels, four lives are shattered forever.
The production first presented in Bristol last year comes to the West End, with the leads reprising their roles.
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“Eyre brings an astonishing pace to his intense, electrifying production... Manville: a frighteningly real addict.”
“Astonishing production... Magnificent performances... Freshness and directness... Emotional truth that is utterly devastating.”
“Both exhausting and strangely invigorating... Manville: extraordinary... Meticulous.. Delicately, honestly, skilfully sorrowful.”
“Meticulous, expertly modulated... does full justice to O'Neill's text... This superlative production is not to be missed.”
“First-class production from a first-class regional theatre... Irons: supremely watchful... Manville: astonishing.”
“There is no stopping the motor of this madness... Yet the full-throttle energy means that the disaster is lit up as if by flares”
“Irons: a fine performance... A play that if well done, as it is here, leaves you emotionally pulverised.”
“The genius... brought out with luminous wit and warmth in Eyre’s production, is how so much fury is wrapped in so much fondness.”
“Manville gives an immense performance in Richard Eyre’s excellent, epic production.”
“You emerge drained but in that state of elation to which only true tragedy, confronted searchingly and honesty, can bring you.”
“Painfully intense... Unsparing naturalism and just enough tenderness... Manville: virtuoso... Irons: wonderfully mercurial.”
“A vital revival, giving vigour to O'Neill's mighty, semi-autobiographical work and making [it] all the more poignant.”
“A suitably magnetic revival... Manville: finely detailed and compassionate... Feels pacier than usual.”
“Manville: palpably searing emotional intensity... a mesmerising vanishing act... Immense poignancy.”
“A stunning turn from Manville... well matched by Irons as her grandiloquent skinflint husband... Terrific.”
“The playwright’s grittiest, best play... given a generous reworking by Eyre... Manville gives a career-best performance.”
“Eyre’s beautifully judged production shows us how much love courses through this unsparing portrait of damaged, damaging people.”
“Also a startlingly uplifting portrayal of human love... Manville hits ecstatic, fatal highs.”
“A daunting prospect but Eyre’s production ensures maximum engagement... Manville is magnificent... both funny and profoundly sad”
“A fine revival of an American classic... Manville’s monstrously emotive as Mary, she brings out all her character’s pain.”
“Undaunted production... Irons is splendidly at home in the part... Manville: a tour de force... Beard is fastidious perfection.”
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