The 2003 revival of LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. It was a marathon performance (4 hours and 15 minutes, with two intermissions), and the audience sat perfectly still throughout, completely enraptured. Vanessa Redgrave performed Mary Tyrone's final monologue so beautifully I could barely breathe. It truly had the best of everything: perfect cast, perfect direction, great physical production.
More recently, this season's revival of THE NORMAL HEART.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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