Moonchildren
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Opened Nov 30, 2001
Closed Dec 15, 2001
Opened Nov 30, 2001
Closed Dec 15, 2001
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1968 has never been so hilarious ? or so relevant.
As anti-war protests and "free love" spread throughout the country in 1968, seven college students explore the mysteries of life, death, cats, sex, jealousy, hamburgers, and love. Michael Weller's drama, Moonchildren explores the humor and humanity of these students as they grapple with the reality of the world that faces them when school ends.
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You might assume that a play written in the 1960s about a group of contemporaneous college students would seem hopelessly dated when revived at the dawn of the new millennium. But if the work in question is Michael Weller's Moonchildren, such an assumption is unwarranted, as the Oberon Theatre Ensemble's production clearly demonstrates.
Weller is (and was) too fine a writer to have fallen into the trap of crafting a play directly concerned with the specific social and political issues of the decade of hippies, free love, Vietnam, and the SDS. Such an approach might have resulted in a work that would strike present day audiences as fascinating but quaint. Though Moonchildren is set in "a s[...]