Word: misbegottens
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...autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill's fictional mother admonishes through her morphine haze: "It's wrong to blame your brother. He can't help being what the past has made him." These words haunt the play's sequel A Moon for the Misbegotten. It is in this drama, the last of five consciously autobiographical works and his last play, that O'Neill finally allows his brother James confession and absolution, forgiveness from a woman as good as their beloved mother...
...ultimate expression of O'Neill's mature dramatic style, A Moon for the Misbegotten has an elegantly simple structure and is laid in an austere setting. Beyond the joking of old farmer Hogan and his daughter Josie, there is very little movement in the play and very little action. Gone is the heavy-handed, generalized dialogue which intrudes upon the earlier action-packed dramas that span years of time. Moon for the Misbegotten is pared down to its essentials--the language is true to each character and the entire play takes place from one afternoon through the following dawn...
Senelick's kind of expertise (echoed in varying degrees by the other actors), together with the excellence and complexity of the repertory's two other offerings, Moon for the Misbegotten and Heartbreak House, make an interesting Loeb summer season likely. Notwithstanding its flaws, even The Matchmaker is amusing...
...turned out, Feltrinelli's inept sabotage attempt probably did a disservice to his Maoist sympathizers. The scandal over his misbegotten effort will presumably lend new appeal to the law-and-order campaign of Italy's neo-fascist party in the current election campaign...
...stage, she enrolled in acting classes with Jeff Corey, a respected character actor (Seconds, Little Big Man) and an exceptional teacher. "He really brought me out of myself for the first time in my life," she says. Corey's classes got her stage roles in Moon for the Misbegotten, and An Enemy of the People. Equally important, her cousin David Bennett, a fellow Corey student, appointed himself her unofficial protector and promoter. He turned up at her apartment early in the morning to roust her out for auditions. "David, David," she would say, "I don't wanna...