A Moon for the Misbegotten
AMERICAN CLASSIC
By Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Tara Falk
February 3–26, 2023
A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Tara Falk. Scenic design by Tina Anderson, costume design by Nicole M. Harrison, lighting design by Emily A. Maddox, original music and sound design by Max Silverman, prop design by Kortney Hanson, carpentry by Robert Janacek, key art by Ligature Creative, stage manager Lauren Hergenreter, assistant stage manager Katie Hopwood, assistant director Erin Willis. Photos by Brian Miller.
“There’s only tonight, and the moon, and us – and the bonded Bourbon.”
The Hogan family is barely scraping by on their meager tenant farm in the years following the Great War and Spanish Flu pandemic. When Josie and her father, roughened by loss and the land, catch wind that their farm is at risk of being sold out from under them, they conspire to blackmail rich landowner Jim Tyrone. Moonshine flows, hearts spill, and truths reveal a powerful elegy of humanity, grief, and loneliness. Four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill’s bittersweet A Moon for the Misbegotten “is singular within its author’s body of work for its forgiving spirit” (The New York Times).