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Long Day's Journey Into Night reviews: Brian Cox is upstaged by Patricia Clarkson in an 'acting masterclass' but critics struggle through epic three and a half hour West End production


Fresh from playing the beastly patriarch in Succession, Brian Cox has returned to his theatre roots, taking on another grandiose head of the family.

Brian stars in a new revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night in the West End alongside Oscar and Tony nominee Patricia Clarkson. Reviews for the West End revival have hailed the the two leads as giving an acting masterclass with Patricia in particular lavished with praise for her hauntingly accurate depiction of an addict. Brian Cox stars in a new revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night this in the West End alongside Oscar and Tony nominee Patricia Clarkson

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