Proxemics on Page and Stage: O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night - and Bergman’s

The article focuses on the production of film director Eugene O'Neill with the "Long Day's Journey into Night" presented at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, and discusses the proxemics on stage performance. It mentions the levels of proxemic or spatial character relations among the characters in a dramatic and theatrical event including the character-character, the character-spectator, and the spectator-spectator. It notes that the spatial relationship between characters and characters can be described as the distance between characters at any given moment and as the nature of the said distance which can be classified as intimate, personal, social, or public. It also mentions the significance of the proxemic character relations as emphasised by Ingmar Bergman.