A Moon for the Misbegotten
From: Friday, 15th September 2006
To: Saturday, 23 December 2006
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Synopsis
Set in 1923 Connecticut, the play explores the tormented and alcoholic James Tyrone, who finds solace one moonlit night in the healing arms of the shy, virginal Josie Hogan. Possessed by the memory of his dead mother and guilt ridden by his own blasphemous behaviour, the doomed Tyrone is the only man Josie will ever really know.
Our Review:
27 September 2006
Twenty years ago, Kevin Spacey made his West End debut as James Tyrone Jr in A Long Day’s Journey Into Night in a famously quick-on-its-feet production directed by Jonathan Miller, with Jack Lemmon, Spacey’s mentor, as his brutish actor father.
Spacey presented young Jamie as a spitefully chaotic loafer, splintering the usual stereotype of a whoring bully. In this tremendous, riveting revival of Eugene O'Neill’s last play, sparked by the death of O’Neill’s real-life alcoholic brother James in 1923 (the year of the play’s setting, too), Spacey makes peace with the character on his downward, confessional spiral to oblivion on a dilapidated farm in Connecticut.
A Moon for the Misbegotten is indeed a kind of epilogue to Long Day’s Journey, that autobiographical rollercoaster “written in tears and blood”. But it's an altogether more resigned and lyrical piece, classical in composition, intense with emotional significance, bursting with...
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THE MOST REWARDING PURE STIRRING SUPERB THEATRE EXPERIENCE FOR YEARS. LONG LIVE STACEY....
Cast
Kevin Spacey (James Tyrone)
Eve Best (Josie)
Colm Meaney (Phil Hogan)
Billy Carter (T. Stedman Harder)
Eugene O'Hare (Mike Hogan)
Creative
Eugene O'Neill (Author)
Morgan Stanley (Corporate Sponsor)
Elliot Martin (Producer)
Nica Burns (Producer)
Max Weitzenhoffer (Producer)
Elliot Martin (Producer)
Nica Burns (Producer)
Max Weitzenhoffer (Producer)
Howard Davies (Director)
Bob Crowley (Design)
Paule Constable (Lighting)
Christopher Shutt (Sound)
Dominic Muldowney (Music)
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