SEASON SIX CLOSED WITH A EUGENE O'NEILL CLASSIC
We closed our very successful sixth season with our run April 29 — May 15, 2011, with a beautiful play about two lost souls and a chance encounter under the full moon.
Eugene O'Neill's final play, “A Moon for the Misbegotten” tells the story of James Tyrone Jr., a washed-up former actor whose dreams of stardom were washed away by alcoholism and emotional irresponsibility. He encounters Phil Hogan,an Irish immigrant, who along side his outwardly gruff daughter Josie, works a small farm he's renting from James. James wants to sell the farm and is interested in making a deal with his well-to-do neighbors. Phil hatches a scheme by which Josie will talk James into selling the land to them instead, for a lower price.
As James and Josie's conversation veers away from business, they begin to open up to one another about their dreams, their fears, and their many disappointments. The two begin to realize just how much they have in common -- as well as how wide a gulf separates them. It is a play of redemption and tragedy, of beauty and eternal disappointment. It is classic O’Neill.
Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes, O’Neill is the greatest American playwright. "Moon for the Misbegotten" is hailed as his most honest, immediate, comic and lyric play. It is a modern classic.
"Daughter shines in South Camden Theatre Company's 'Misbegotten'"
— The Philadelphia Inquirer, May, 2, 2011
"The Real O'Neill's 'Moon for the Misbegotten' at SCTC"
— STAGE, May 5, 2011
