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Photo: Martin Beckett | Concept Francis O’Connor | Design Gareth Jones

Druid

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Written by Eugene O'Neill and Directed by Garry Hynes

1-2 Oct, 7.30pm
3 Oct, 2pm & 7.30pm
4 Oct, 2pm

Gaiety Theatre

€25-€50

Previews:
1 Oct, 2pm

Country: Ireland

Language: English

Duration: 2h40m plus interval

For fans of the unparalleled Druid, Hynes’s return to O’Neill is unmissable. As the dark shadow of the American psyche looms large, she interrogates its Irish influence.

”Funny, tense and unbearably sad in parts, Druid’s newest production ... is one of their slickest ... epic and exhilarating revival“
— Sunday Independent
”Under Druid’s muscular management, and with Cranitch, Walsh and Rea operating at the peak of their powers, O’Neill’s passionate American tragedy finally finds its feet, and its purpose, on the Irish stage ...Tremendous stuff.“
— Sunday Independent
”Druid steal Eugene O’Neill’s drink-sodden ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten’ back from America.“
— Irish Independent

‘We can kid the world but we can’t fool ourselves’.

Over the course of one day and night in rural Connecticut, Josie Hogan, the last of her immigrant Irish family left at home with her alcoholic father, and their anguished landlord, James Tyrone, long for escape – she from her life, and he from his loss. A Moon for the Misbegotten sees Druid return to the work of Pulitzer, Nobel and Tony Award winning playwright Eugene O’Neill for the first time since 2007.

One of the great canonical works of the 20th century, A Moon for the Misbegotten is the sequel to Long Day’s Journey into Night, and the last of O’Neill’s trio of largely autobiographical plays which reflect his complex relationship with Ireland. This production is part of Druid’s 2026 Season, Strange Country: Ireland in America.

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