A Moon for the Misbegotten, written by four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, features an international creative team and is directed by Theatre Royal Artistic Director and Former Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Ben Barnes.
The play at its core is a stark look at humanity in its basest and loveliest form.The play is a sequel to O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night.
The jaded James Tyrone is on the edge of despair, and the fiercely passionate Josie Hogan is lonely beyond endurance. But on this night, when they meet on a barren patch of earth in the glow of an autumn moon, hope sparks between them.
In Josie Hogan, O’Neill has created one of the great female characters of contemporary American theatre.
The cast is drawn from both Ireland and the USA and includes Broadway actress Kate Forbes (The School for Scandal, for which she received an award for Outstanding Broadway Debut), Irish actors Mark Lambert and Michael Quinlan and American actor Don Mackay (Modern Family, Elementary).
The production is designed by Joe Vanek who designed the Tony Award Winning Dancing at Lughnasa on Broadway. Ann G. Wrightson was a Tony nominee for her work on Tony Award-winning August: Osage County (2008).
A co-production between Theatre Royal Waterford and Geva Theatre Center, Rochester New York. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council, Waterford Council and the Waterford Rochester Business Community.
Performance dates: Tuesday 15 – Saturday 19 Mar ch – at 7:45pm
Prices : £10 – £24, £15, and off peak performances Group discount: 11th ticket free (10 or more)
Concessions: £10 for students, unemployed people, over 65’s and under 20’s any performance except Friday and Saturday night.
