A Moon for the Misbegotten
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Nick Hern Books
Published:14th May '92
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone family started by Long Day's Journey into Night.
James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jnr is a hard-drinking Broadway playboy, trying to blot out his painful memories of the past by indulging his craven self-destructive streak. One day he finds that he has wandered to the home of his salty tenant-farmer Phil Hogan; and Hogan's lusty, jaded daughter Josie.
Under the Connecticut moon, Jamie and Josie find something in each other they never knew existed – though it is only when he passes out dead drunk that Josie can really touch him. But will he still be there when the moon goes?
Eugene O'Neill's play A Moon for the Misbegotten had its world premiere at the Hartman Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, in 1947. It premiered on Broadway in 1957.
This edition of the play includes a full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.
'Eugene O'Neill is arguably the greatest of American playwrights... this play is a work of shattering genius'
* Independent *'A scorching play about the eternal American theme of reality and illusion... that rarest of theatrical treats: an evening of raw, powerful emotion'
* Guardian *'Tremendous, often shatteringly powerful... wrenches the heart like few other 20th-century dramas'
* Daily Telegraph *'Extraordinary... What this shares with Long Day's Journey, and with all of O'Neill's best work, is the seven or eight layers of contradictory meaning that each line hides, and a cast full of characters who can’t tell themselves the truth'
* Time Out *'A tender, tawdry tragedy of missed connections and unconsummated longing'
* The StaISBN: 9781854591395
Dimensions: 196mm x 127mm x 10mm
Weight: 123g
121 pages