Eugene O'Neil's Classic Love Story
Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre present a new staging of Eugene O'Neil's complex story about the past that haunts us and future which could be ours. The playwright's last completed work, A Moon for the Misbegotten acts as a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize winning play Long Day's Journey Into Night. A typically rich etching of the human condition, it was first staged on Broadway in 1957, and has since enjoyed numerous revivals, most notably in 2007 with Kevin Spacey in the lead role.
A Moon for the Misbegotten follows the character of the middle-aged James Tyrone Jr., a cynical alcoholic who now lives in a rundown Connecticut farmhouse, with his tenants Phil and Josie Hogan. Afraid that Tyrone may sell the land from underneath their feet, the Hogans plot to blackmail him. Yet, remarkably, love begins to blossom between the two damaged souls of James and Josie, and a life of happiness seems with touching distance.