Aro-Mind

Last night my wife Tania and I went to the Auckland Theatre Company's production of 'Long Day's Journey into Night' by Eugene O'Neill, the great American playwright. What a wonderful production ! If you love theatre I highly recommend this tragic tale of a family gripped in lost dreams, resentments and the tyranny of memory. O'Neill's writing is sublime as it quickly cracks the thin veneer of civility between the family members to dive into the emotional layers within. The cheapskate, land owning father who mourns for a lost dramatic career; a declining mother who once fought valiantly against her addiction only to succumb yet again; an embittered elder son who's seen it all before and rails against his parent's expectations of him when they themselves have fallen so far short; and an unwell younger son, weakened by the prospect of an early death through 'consumption' (tuberculosis) now curable if his father would only pony up with the money,...