Friday, July 14, 2017

A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill

July 21, 22, 28, 29 at 7:30pm

$10 general admission or FREE for Museum Members.
Tickets available at the door.

New Antiquities Theatre Company brings you the sequel to last summer's production of Long Day's Journey Into Night.  The story is that of Jim Tyrone, a decade after Journey, attempting to deal with grief, guilt and loneliness in the only way he knows:  alcohol.  While visiting the land of the Tyrone's tenant farmer, Phil Hogan, Jim seeks the company of Phil's daughter Josie, a woman struggling with her own insecurities.  Jim and Josie find love and comfort for a night, but what will happen when the sun rises?

This was the final play Eugene O'Neill ever wrote.  Long Day's Journey Into Night is an intimate, autobiographical look at his own family, whereas A Moon for the Misbegotten is a fictionalized idea of what his brother's last days might entail.  O'Neill gives his brother a gentler fate in Moon and allows him to find some comfort in the end.

The play does contain some language and adult situations, so adult discretion is advised.

Join us on the patio as New Antiquities Theatre Company presents A Moon for the Misbegotten directed by Nathan R. Miles.

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