Magnetic Cox gives a towering performance in this O'Neill for the Succession generation

It's typical of the wry, bloody-minded dedication Brian Cox brings to his craft that, at 77, he's followed the Shakespearean TV role of Logan Roy in Succession with the monolithic family tragedy of 20th-century American theatre.

- Nick Curtis

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play sees actor James Tyrone locked in an implacable knot of addiction, regret and resentment with his wife Mary (the mighty Patricia Clarkson) and sons Jamie and Edmund (Daryl McCormack and Laurie Kynaston), It's a long and challenging work, the arc of a single day in 1912 condensed into three-plus hours in a dowdy Connecticut living room.

The characters flick between hatred and love as they play out intricate variations of old recriminations and rapprochements in the first half. They get huge, chewy, self-explanatory monologues in the second.

Despite minor early linefluffs from Cox and Clarkson on opening night, Jeremy Herrin's production is full of pathos and ruined grandeur, with superb performances all round.