Actor James Tyrone’s summer home is haunted by alcohol, addiction, failed dreams and ghosts of resentments gone but hardly forgotten. Mary, his delicate wife, nurses her losses and lives in an idealized past. His eldest son Jamie is a failed actor who excels at one role: the scapegoat who, more often than not, tells the brutal truth. Only Edmund, the youngest, might succeed if he can overcome his heredity and precarious health. Christopher Liam Moore (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire) directs Eugene O’Neill’s semiautobiographical masterpiece in which hell is a family whose members want to love each other but don’t know how.
Theatrical mist and herbal or e-cigarettes and cigars may be used in this production.