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Theatre
Clurman, Harold | November 24, 1956 issue

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It is easy to say it categorically, that the play "Long Day's Journey Into Night," by Eugene O'Neill, is a play everyone should see and admire. It is not only unique among American plays, but in O'Neill's work itself. For it is an unabashedly autobiographical statement, something torn in agonized honesty from the memory and conscience of its author--who appears to have been compelled to set down this testament of his early home life to preserve his sanity. The result, artistically speaking, is a solid, unadorned and arresting piece of realism.

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CHILDREN'S plays; LONG Day's Journey Into Night (Theatrical production); O'NEILL, Eugene, 1888-1953; PERFORMING arts; REALISM; UNITED States
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