Tom McCamus in Heyday. Pic from Northern Stars
PBS 1999: Tom McCamus
Long Day's Journey Into Night
In the summer of 1939 at the age of 50, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill began work on what he called "a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood," finally summoning the courage to write an autobiographical masterpiece that confronted the truth about his own family. In this powerful new interpretation from Canada's Stratford Festival, director David Wellington's film adaptation of O'Neill's searing drama maintains the production's theatrical intimacy, featuring shattering performances by William Hutt as James Tyrone, Martha Henry as his wife Mary, Peter Donaldson as James Jr., and Tom McCamus as O'Neill's alter ego Edmund.
Writer Gerald Jonas interviews director David Wellington; reviews the life and career of Eugene O'Neill; and examines the play's parallels to Eugene O'Neill's life and family.
Click here to explore the Web companion for this program, which originally aired on September 19, 1999.
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