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A Moon for the Misbegotten

By Eugene O’Neill
Directed by J. Cody Spellman

“There is no present or future – only the past, happening over and over again – now.”

A poignant love story by a giant among American playwrights, A Moon for the Misbegotten is Eugene O’Neill’s final work, an exploration of family and the sacrifices we make for the ones we love.

When Phil Hogan and his daughter, Josie, learn that their farmland may be sold out from under them by James Tryone Jr., a man haunted by the past, they concoct a plan to save their home, one that ultimately reveals the secret desires two lonely souls have kept hidden for years.

O’Neill’s dramas are both intimate and vast, and A Moon for the Misbegotten is a timeless masterpiece rooted in his own family saga. Tyrone, Jr. stands in for his troubled brother, whom O’Neill recalls, exhumes, to offer Jamie the redemption he never found in life. Forgiveness comes in the form of a woman who loves him unconditionally, an echo of their mother.

SHOWTIMES

August 2-25, 2024 | 8pm
Monday – Wednesday
Friday – Sunday

Staged at Longue Vue Club
400 Longue Vue Drive, Verona, PA 15147

Established in the 1920s, on 370 acres dramatically overlooking the Allegheny River Valley, renowned architect Benno Janssen designed Longue Vue’s clubhouse with old world charm, like an English Country estate. The sporting clays field, where the performances will be held, commands a sweeping panoramic view.

Ticket holders are welcome to BYO-picnic before the show! Picnics can be held on the open fields surrounding the lodge and sporting clay fields, beginning at 6:30pm

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Meet the Principals

Melessie Clark

Josie Hogan

Melessie Clark is thrilled to be returning to Quantum Theatre as leading lady, Josie Hogan. You may remember her as The Current War’s Marguerite Westinghouse. A Pittsburgh native, she was most recently seen in the new musical, The Preacher’s Wife at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Melessie made her Off-Broadway debut in A Sign of the Times at New World Stages in New York City. She can be seen in Archive 81 on Netflix, Anything’s Possible directed by Billy Porter and Final Decision on Amazon Prime, and the short film We Are Nowhere directed by Cody Spellman.

Wali Jamal

Phil Hogan

Wali Jamal is thrilled to return to Quantum Theatre as Phil Hogan. He has just come back to Pittsburgh after performing as Jaques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It with the 23rd annual St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. He has performed with nearly every known theater company in ‘Da Burgh’ and has come to be known as one of the hardest working actors in the region. Wali was named the 2018 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Performer of the Year for his performance in August Wilson’s one man play, How I Learned What I Learned. Wali is celebrated as the first and only actor in the world to have performed that one man play, in addition to all ten plays in August Wilson’s Century Cycle.

Brett Mack

Jamie Tyrone, Jr.

Brett Mack graces the Quantum stage as Jamie Tyrone, Jr. Quantum audiences might remember his outstanding performance as Horatio in last season’s Hamlet. He has been an actor and educator for more than 20 years, working all over the country. Some previous credits include the off-Broadway production of The Originalist; The Great Society and Hamlet at the Asolo Rep; The Glass Menagerie at Bridge Street Theater; The Tempest and Leveling Up at the Hippodrome; Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night at Orlando Shakespeare Theater; as well as Mezzulah 1946 and The Muckle Man with the Pittsburgh City Theatre.