LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT At Tulsa PAC Closes Tomorrow 5/23
By: Gabrielle Sierra May. 22, 2009
Long Days Journey Into Night will be performed at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center in the John. H. Williams Theater May 15-17, 2009 and May 21-23, 2009. Tickets may be purchased at 587-8402, 596-7109, or online at www.myticketoffice.com
The cast is as follows:
James Tyrone, Sr.: Michael Massey
Mary Cavan Tyrone: Noel Fairbrothers
James "Jamie" Tyrone, Jr.: Justin McKean
Edmund Tyrone: Gus Haskell
Cathleen: Andrea Morey
Long Day's Journey Into Night takes place in the living room of a summer house in 1912, and unfolds during the space of one day; from morning until midnight. This autobiographical work details the tortured family background that shaped the life of its author, Eugene O'Neill. The plays characters include James Tyrone, Sr., a patriarch and retired actor who is well off, but a confirmed miser. His eldest son Jamie is a drunk, and his youngest son, Edmund, has tuberculosis. The matriarch of this colorful family, Mary, is a drug addict. The mother's addiction is a result of James Sr. sending her to a second-rate doctor. Jamie drinks from sheer frustration, while the old man has never been able to get over his magnified respect for money induced by an impoverished childhood. Even the illness of the Edmund, quite obviously the author, is being treated by the cheapest local physician, and the father is planning to send him to a state sanatorium where he will hopefully expire expensively. The
characters speak in the everyday language of our neighbors; their emotions rise and fall with the absurd devotion to insignificant things which provoke so many quarrels; these are all dimensional characters trying desperately to keep their doomed household together.
Theatre Tulsa is a proud member of the Tulsa Area Community Theatre Alliance, Tulsa Arts & Humanities Council, and the Oklahoma Community Theatre Association.
This production made possible by the Oklahoma Arts Council, the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, The George Kaiser Family Foundation, The Williams Companies, Urban Tulsa Weekly, Dale Gillman Antiques, Donna Simmons/Tulsa Tech Broken Arrow and all the proud sponsors of Theatre Tulsa.
Theatre Tulsa
207 N. Main
Tulsa, Ok 74103
918- 587-8402
Email: theatretulsa@tacta.net
Web page: www.theatretulsa.org
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