• intoxication
• fog
• standstill

A summer house on the Connecticut coast, at exactly 08:30 in the morning - this is how the story begins, which takes place on an August day in the living room of the Tyrone family. The family consists of the actor James, his wife Mary and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, as well as their maid Cathleen. Every year, the family spends the holidays away from the stressful touring that theatre life entails at their summer house on the Connecticut coast. The day begins idyllically: the sun is shining and the garden needs tending. And then? The actual and metaphorical fog gets thicker and thicker. A long day's journey into the night begins and the façade of the ideal world gradually crumbles.

The autobiographical drama by author Eugene O'Neill, written in 1940, is considered one of the most important works of American theatre literature. Director Sebastian Nübling dedicates himself to this modern classic as a journey into the depths of the family system. He emphasises the universal, timeless themes of isolation, love and connection, missed opportunities and failure. Without ignoring the political and social issues of our time, he takes a darkly melancholy and comically absurd look at the reasons for cohesion, responsibility, intoxication and isolation.

In recent years, Sebastian Nübling has successfully staged plays by mainly contemporary authors such as Sibylle Berg, Sivan Ben Yishai and Simon Stephens. Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht is his first production at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.