Theatre preview: Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow

When Eugene O’Neill sat down to write what’s now recognised as his masterpiece, around 1941, he was already well over 50, and suffering from the health problems that would soon put an end to his writing life, a decade before his death in 1953. Long Day’s Journey Into Night therefore represents both his greatest work and his swan song, a play that contains within it a lifetime’s experience of family and escape from family, of ecstatic moments and profound disappointment, and of addiction and its impact.