FOGBOUND.('Long Day's Journey Into Night,' Plymouth Theatre, New York, New York)(Theater Review)

In his masterpiece "Long Day's Journey Into Night"(superbly revived at the Plymouth), Eugene O'Neill brought his own spectral, heartbroken family--"the four haunted Tyrones,"he called them--to the stage. Here, in the course of a single day in 1912, within the creosoted knotty-pine walls of the Tyrone family's Connecticut summer home, are re?nacted the mad scenes of O'Neill's childhood, the claustrophobic and punishing double binds, and the moments of loss that twisted his family's ties. "Long Day's Journey"is a sort of s?ance with the dead, and O'Neill saw the writing of the play as an expiation; but it is also a resuscitation--a way of both mourning his self-destructive ...