A Moon for the Misbegotten at The Adobe Theater

A Moon for the Misbegotten,The Adobe Theatre is proud to announce its production of Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, A Moon for the Misbegotten. This was O’Neill’s last full length play, and is considered one of the classics of American theater.

The story is set on a rundown Connecticut farmhouse in the early 1920’s. It centers around two members of the Hogan family, Phil Hogan and his daughter Josie, and their alcoholic landlord, Jim Tyrone, a third-rate Broadway actor, a man tormented by his past behavior he can neither forget nor forgive. The play unfolds as Phil attempts to convince Josie to blackmail Tyrone into selling them the farm rather than to their rich, obnoxious neighbor, T. Stedman Harder. Seeing a union between Josie and Jim as a solution to both the family’s money problems and Josie’s loneliness, Phil schemes to get them together one way or another. But Josie and Jim are two lost souls, reaching out to each other across a blighted stretch of earth, in pursuit of a love, doomed from the beginning.