Long Day's Journey Into Night – Eugene O'Neill

"The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too."

Over the course of a single day in August 1912, the Tyrone family confronts their demons in their Connecticut summer home. James, the miserly actor father; Mary, the morphine-addicted mother; and their two troubled sons engage in a cycle of love, resentment, blame, and forgiveness as they grapple with addiction and illness.

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical masterpiece was published posthumously. It is a harrowing, claustrophobic, and deeply moving dissection of a dysfunctional family, widely considered the greatest American play ever written.