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03/28/2018 07:00 AMThe Flock Theatre will present Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night during April and May in the Monte Cristo Cottage, the inspiration for the play’s setting.
Eugene O’Neill’s magnum opus is an autobiographical exercise in forgiveness for O’Neill’s family as they battle addiction, illness, and regret. Audiences witness the Tyrone family over the course of one day in August 1912 in their summer home. Flock Theatre will stage the play in the actual room where it takes place, using natural and reproduction lighting, to explore space and time unlike any production to date.
The production will be directed by Derron Wood. The cast includes Mary Tyrone, Anne Flammang; James Tyrone, Christie Williams; Edmund Tyrone, Victor Chiburis; James Tyrone Jr., Eric Michaelian; and Cathleen, Madeleine Dauer. Costumes by Laura Galgowski and the stage manager is Kristen Rowe
The Monte Cristo Cottage is located at 325 Pequot Avenue, New London.
The production is on Saturdays and Sundays April 7 through May 6, with the first half starting at 3 p.m. and the second half starting at 7:30 p.m.
On Saturday, April 21 and Saturday, May 5, there will be special performances with acts beginning at times that simulate those specified in the script:
• Act I, 9 a.m.
• Act II, 12:45 p.m.
• Act III, 7 p.m.
• Act IV, 8 p.m.
Tickets are $35, and $45 for the special performances. Seating is very limited and reservations are required, and can be obtained by emailing flocktheatre@hotmail.com or calling 860-443-3119.
Flock Theatre is a professional, non-profit theater company based in New London committed to working with any community into which it’s invited to find the theater that best suits the needs of that community. Starting as a street theater company in Boston in the late 1980s, the fledgling troupe eventually settled in southeastern Connecticut by the early ’90s. With focuses in classics, puppetry, and education, Flock has created theater that is immersive, site-specific, historical, and unique. Its Summer Shakespeare in the Arboretum at Connecticut College is the longest uninterrupted festival of it’s kind in the region, and its Burning of Benedict Arnold Festival combines pageantry with historical drama to bring to life American history and tradition.
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center was founded in 1964 in honor of Eugene O’Neill, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and America’s only playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The O’Neill is dedicated to the development of new works and new voices for the American theater.
For more information, visit the O’Neill website www.theoneill.org or email theaterlives@theoneill.org.