O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night on the Romanian Stage: Valorizing the performance potential in production history

Abstract

This paper deals with the continuing dialogue between dramatic text and audience, while resorting to the tenets of reception theory. I have focused on the moral issues resulting from the unfolding of dramatic action in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night and analyzed the ideological implications of performance in the course of this play’s stage history in Romania.