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Moonchildren by New York playwright Michael Weller (Loose Ends, Fishing and the screenplays for Hair and Ragtime)    had its debut on Broadway in 1972.  Weller received a Drama Desk Award for Best New Playwright and it garnered it’s actors a Tony and three Drama Desk Awards.  The original cast included James Wood, Ed Hermann, Nicholas Guest, Jill Eikenberry, Maureen Anderman and Steve Collins.

Set in an “urban commune” apartment shared by seven students at an Eastern college in 1965-66, the play explores the humor and pathos, the complexities and insecurities of being a college senior during the war in Vietnam and the turbulent shifting landscape of the 60’s in America.  The characters struggle and play with their relationships to each other and with the meaning of life, getting an education, of love, of death and the uncertainty of what the future holds for them as they move out into the world.

Suggested donation: $5.00. Seating is on a first-come, first served basis.