"Long journey of a day into the night" is the work that the Buenos Aires Theater Complex will present at the Casacuberta Hall this month, with stellar performances by Arturo Puig and Selva Alemán.

This classic created by Eugene O'Neill will be directed by Luciano Suardi and will debut at the venue on Avenida Corrientes 1530 on Wednesday 20 of September. Lautaro Delgado Tymruk, Diego Gentile and Julia Gárriz complete the cast.

Throughout its almost two hours of duration, This piece will narrate the conflicts that an American family will go through due to frustrations and vices. The proposal includes elements of the life of the author himself.

The play is located in the Tyrone summer home., the main family. Mary does not overcome her addictions and the wait for a utopian recovery will bring tragedies of the past to the family, resentments, disappointments and displays of affection, Nonetheless.

Eugene O'Neill delivered a copy of the manuscript of "A Day's Long Journey Into Night" at 1945, a la editorial Random House, on the condition that it not be published until 25 years after his death; Y, by then, he had decided never to perform.

After the playwright died, Carlotta Monterey, his wife and to whom he had dedicated the work, made the decision to make it known. Its world premiere - which required four and a half hours of performance- it took place in 1956, not in the United States, but at the Royal Theater in Stockholm.

Just to mention one of the foreign representations of this piece, can remember the 2003, at the Plymouth Theater on Broadway, In New York, with a cast consisting of Brian Dennehy, Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Sean Leonard and Fiana Toibin.

O'Neill was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for this work..

This work also premiered at the Teatro Regio in 2010 (and was restored in the Casacuberta Room in 2011) under the direction of Villanueva Cosse, with a cast made up of Claudia Lapacó, Daniel Fanego, Sergio Surraco, Agustin Rittano and Gimena Riestra.