Lesley Manville's performance as Mary (pictured below), the tortured morphine addict, wife and mother in Eugene O'Neill's dark masterpiece "Long Day's Journey Into Night" at the Bristol Old Vic, directed by Richard Eyre, is breathtaking, from the moment she first steps on stage until her last sombre soliloquy. The role of a woman prone to hysteria and self-deception invites over-acting, not least when the autho…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:25PM on March 30, 2016