TICKETS go on sale next Monday (February 22) for the chance to see Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville come together for a single In Conversation event during the run of Long Day's Journey Into Night at Bristol's Old Vic theatre.

On Saturday, April 9 the pair will talk about their careers to date as well as their roles in Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece.

Rehearsals have already begun for Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which runs from 23 March to 23 April and is set to be one of the hottest tickets of 2016; the year the historic theatre celebrates its 250th anniversary.

Sixty years since its posthumous publication, this unashamedly autobiographical masterpiece is widely considered to be Eugene O’Neill’s greatest work. It captures one fateful summer’s day in the life of the Tyrones, bound to a past they can neither forgive nor forget. James and Mary Tyrone and their two sons test the bonds of a family caught in a cycle of love and resentment. As day turns to night and the family indulge in their vices, the truth unravels leaving behind a quartet of ruined lives.

It will star Jeremy Irons (Brideshead Revisited, The Borgias), and Olivier award-winner Lesley Manville (Ghosts, Another Year) who are joined by Hadley Fraser, Billy Howle and Jessica Regan and will be directed by Richard Eyre. This is the first time that the acclaimed British theatre, film, television and opera director has directed a production at Bristol Old Vic, the place which inspired him as a schoolboy to work in theatre, after seeing Peter O’Toole play Hamlet in 1957.

For tickets and more details visit www.bristololdvic.org.uk