Jeremy’s journey is about to begin
Award-winning actors Jeremy irons and Lesley Manville will roar into 2018 in a revival of american playwright Eugene O’neill’s searing Long day’s Journey into night.
The drama, based on O’neill’s own family, will begin previewing at wyndham’s Theatre in late January with an official first night in February. The limited season runs until early april.
Clearer dates will be available once negotiations have taken place between producer Edward Snape of the Fiery angel theatre company and the delfont Mackintosh group, owner of wyndham’s. Tickets are likely to go on sale within the next few weeks.
richard Eyre directed this production at the Bristol Old Vic last spring where it ran with irons, Manville, Hadley Fraser, and Billy Howle as the Tyrone family.The characters are laid bare in this play; there’s nowhere to hide.
Once more, irons will take on the part of James Tyrone, the penny-pinching actor manager who looks on helplessly as his wife, Mary (Manville), gets high on morphine.
Hadley Fraser is not available to reprise his role as a dissipated son because he’ll be starring in Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein, while Howle is still determining whether or not he will be free to play the Tyrone’s other son.
The gig doesn’t just involve the west End. The Long day’s Journey into night company would also travel to the Brooklyn academy of Music (BaM) and then play in Los angeles.
MEANWHILE, Manville has been busy filming a second series of BBC comedy Mum, and she will also be seen playing the sister of daniel day-Lewis’s character in the new (untitled) Paul Thomas anderson film.
The movie has taken on enormous significance because it was announced last month that it is to be the three-time Oscar-winner’s last acting role.
irons has been aiding the caped crusader in forthcoming Batman films and has appeared opposite Jennifer Lawrence in the spy thriller red Sparrow.
The full cast and dates announced soon.