Director Darryl Maximilian Robinson Notes The ESC's 1998 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award-Winning Revival of O'Neill's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at The Heartland Cafe Studio Theatre
ESC'S DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON REMEMBERS A 1998 CHICAGO JOSEPH JEFFERSON CITATION AWARD-WINNING REVIVAL OF EUGENE O'NEILL'S "LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT" AT CHICAGO"S INTIMATE HEARTLAND CAFE STUDIO THEATRE OF ROGERS PARK! "Danielle Gordon, playing the wife Mary, is a marvel. O'Neill wrote his mother into this play, and Gordon gives a sustained, quality performance that is unique and fulfilling as the lady who must accept her drug addiction because without it, life, as a woman following a "famous actor," has offered nothing real in pleasure." -- Lawrence Dunn, The Chicago Citizen, August 7, 1997. "Highly-talented Robinson, who also directs the drama, plays James Sr. as larger than life - a vast ego of a man, continually speaking lines from his successful onstage appearances, driven by an over-weening professional ambition, a penchant to control his family, and a miserly streak so broad it is destroying ...