Performance - King O the Moon January 16, 2010

King O The Moon (Over The Tavern II)By Tom DudzickKing o the Moon transports the Pazinskis from the conservative 50s to the rebellious 60s. Rudy, now 22, is a seminary student honoring his fathers deathbed wish that his son should become a priest, Brother Eddie is married, on the brink of fatherhood, and about to ship out for Vietnam. As the play opens on July 18, 1969, Apollo 11 is about to land on the moon; Rudy has gone AWOL from the seminary to participate in his first anti-war protest; Sister Annie is contemplating divorce; and romance is blooming for Rudys widowed mom, Ellen. The new play--like the decade in which it is set--has a greater urgency and sharper realism than its predecessor, as the adult Pazinskis tackle grown-up issues like divorce, remarriage, war and draft-evasion. Dudzick is well on his way to becoming the Neil Simon of the Catholic, Polish-American working class; he has already started work on a third play that will take the Pazinskis into the 1970s

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