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Long Day’s Journey Into Night
The Queensland Theatre Company

LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O’Neill from March 16 to April 3, 1982 at the S.G.I.O. Theatre for the Queensland Theatre Company.

Directed by Alan Edwards; Designed by James Ridewood; Assistant Director Gregory Gesch; Stage Managed by Kristin Reuter; Assistant Stage Managed by Toby Simkin and Lighting Design by James Henson.

STARRING Elaine Cusick (Mary Tyrone); Ron Graham (James Tyrone); Mark Lee (Edmund Tyrone); Duncan Wass (James Tyrone Jr.) and Karen Crone (Cathleen)

Understudies Darien Sticklen (James Tyrone); Karen Crone (Mary Tyrone); Peter Noble (James Tyrone Jr. / Edmund Tyrone) and Jan Levi (Cathleen).

And for the Queensland Theatre Company:
(collectively over my tenure)

Executive Staff: Alan Edwards, AM MBE (Founding Artistic Director); Joe MacColum / John Krummel OAM / Gregory Gesch (Resident Director); Peter Duncan* (Assistant Director); Arthur Frame AM (Production Manager); Gillian Coar (Executive Officer); Christine Walsh / Ken Kennett OAM (Public Relations & Publicity Officer); June Craw OAM (Finance and Business Officer); Lewis Savage (Ticketing & Subscriptions Officer); Helen Mayes (Clerical Assistant); Lloyd Nickson (Director, Theatre in Education); Richard Magnus (Fundraising Chairman); Diane Leith (Administration) and Susan Bonning / Jennie Lewis (Receptionist).

Production Staff: Graham Maclean / James Ridewood (Resident Designer); Bill Shannon / Beverley Hill (Design Assistant); Caroline Gyucha (Scenic Artist); James Henson (Lighting Designer); David Lees (Electrician); Michael Wormald / Gary Cameron / Paul Parkinson / David Palm (Properties); Howard Steele (Head Carpenter); Des Dougan / Peter Vosiliunas (Carpenter); Cornelis Boogaart* (Apprentice Carpenter); Marie Perry-Watson / Lexi Wright / Jay Mansfield-Askew / Cynthia Bowen (Wardrobe Supervisor); Ken Bushby / Thelma Cope / Meredith Fogg / Margaret Reeves / Danny Healy / Arlie McGill / Anne Long / Kerry Yates (Wardrobe); Ellen Kennedy / David McCrudden / Kit Oldfield / Patrick Whelan / Kristin Reuter / Jan Levi / Victor Ashelford / Colin Wilson / Barry Melville / Toby Simkin / Brian Barnes / Vito Arena / Peter Reeve^± / Sussanne Humphries / Julianne White (Stage Management); Vicki Birch / Yvette (Capt) O’Brien (Production Secretary); Dawn Grieg (Wardrobe Hire) and Ivan/Gloria Pierce, Gregory Gesch & Derrick George (Photographers).

Representation: Yolande Bird / Diana Franklin (London Representative); Michael Menzies / Stuart Thompson (New York Representative) and John Krummel OAM (Sydney Casting & Repertoire Consultant).

S.G.I.O. Theatre Staff: Jim Wright (Manager); Alban Riley / Don Fergusson (Assistant Manager); Peter Petrovich / Ray Calcutt (Head Mechanist); Patrick (Paddy) Teuma / David Malacari (Head Electrician) and Dallas Black / Kay Fifas (Booking Office)

Albert Park Theatre Staff: Wayne McKenna (House Manager); Margo Morris (Box Office)

Associate Artists: Bille Brown AM; Carol Burns; Reginald Cameron OAM, Ivar Kants; Joe MacColum; Warren Mitchell; James Ridewood, Cliff Simcox; Babette Stephens AM MBE and Geraldine Turner OAM.

QTC Guild: Magda Wollner (Coordinator); Alice Beacroft, Joan Chamberlain, Bobbie Glyn Evans, Maureen Fallon, Sonja Farmer, Beryl Foote, Neil Fulwood, Dolores Garland, Elaine Heath, Edna Heathwood, Margaret Hill, Ena Huppert, June Jamieson, Eva Klug, Irene Lefman, Patrick Mellick, Hillary Mosten, Maureen Mortensen, Barbara Nielsen, Joyce Nixon Smith, Gloria Phillips, Vivienne Reddy, Marea Reed, Melina Reed, Margaret Robinson, Grace Reynolds, June Sheedy, Ann Shevill, Toby Simkin, Sybil Simpson, Elaine Skinner, Anne Smith and Jess Yeowart (Volunteers)

* Salaries were assisted by a special grant from the Theatre Board of the Australia Council, a statutory body of the Commonwealth Government.
^± Services were provided by the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
^ Services were provided courtesy of the Queensland Theatre Orchestra

The Queensland Theatre Company acknowledged the financial assistance of the Queensland State Government and the Commonwealth Government through the Theatre Board of the Australia Council without which the continued operation of the Company would not have been possible. The Queensland Theatre Company was a founding member of CAPPA (Confederation of Australia Professional Performing Arts)

Long Day’s Journey into Night

No more honest or unsparing autobiographical play exists in dramatic literature than LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT.

Fact: it is true. For the play is autobiographical. O’Neill himself becomes the consumptive Edmund, locked in a love/hate relationship with his father, a rich retired actor now beetle-browed with drink. We meet his brother Jamie, a failed actor and whore-master also fond of a glass or two, and his mother: the frail faded beauty mourning her past and alleviating the pain of the present by her addiction to morphine.

Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O’Neill

The Queensland Theatre Company
Directed by Alan Edwards

Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O’Neill

BROADWAY
Directed by Robert Falls

In 2003 I was Associate Producer of the Broadway production of LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, which opened at the Plymouth Theatre, on May 6, 2003 and closed on August 31, 2003, having grossed USD $11,333,178 during a pre-determined limited run of 117 performances and 10 paid previews (previews began on April 25, 2003), with an average ticket price of $86.25. Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, Robert Sean Leonard & Philip Seymour Hoffman.