Long Day's Journey Into Night; Where Have I Been All My Life?; Chalet Lines " review by Susannah Clapp

Apollo, London; New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Bush, LondonEugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night is a mighty work. It has a straight-from-the-heart punch, a long, allusive reach and a deal of comic irony. Teetering on melodrama, it surges with operatic life, its speeches punctuated by a foghorn. O'Neill's wife said that watching him write the play, some 17 years before it was first staged in 1956, was to see…

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