David Suchet to Star in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT?

David Suchet is one of the UK's leading actors; his many roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company include Shylock, Iago and Caliban. His numerous West End credits include Amadeus, Oleanna and Separation. He is widely known to television audiences from such series as Blott on the Landscape, The Way We Live Now, National Crime Squad and Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Now the veteran actor is rumored to be in talks to star in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT under the direction of Anthony Page. The Daily Mail reports that the production would open in March 2012, with Kim Poster and Nica Burns producing.

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT is considered Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece play and is a largely autobiographical work of gut-wrenching honesty. Over the course of one fateful day, the Tyrone family (three alcoholics and one morphine addict) sling barbs and reopen old wounds in their seaside Connecticut vacation home. With heartbreaking humor, the loving yet dysfunctional family battle to unearth and conceal a series of appalling truths to explosive effect. The emotional complexity of this family - gripped with addiction, haunted by the past and paralyzed by the future - delivers staggering insight on the themes of familial resentment, enabling, forgiveness and the bond of abiding love.