Tara today went to her first play, entirely in Swedish, at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, (more info here) in Stockholm. Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (Lång dags färd mot natt) was performed by some of Sweden's best actors (Börje Ahlstedt (who appeared in this old classic!) , Lena Endre, Jonas Karlsson and Jonas Malmsjö).For the trivia-buff, it should be noted that O'Neill's play had its world premiere on this very stage.
The Royal Dramatic Theatre is a very impressive building, both the interior and exterior. However, the set on the stage was anything but inviting; just a table, four chairs, a whiskey bottle, a couple of glasses, and a long grey, transparent curtain with a pillar of light in the backdrop. After almost four hours of anxiety, grief, loathing, drug abuse and misery, Mrs Mary Tyrone was finally able to get back into her long-awaited, abysmal darkness again.
