Beast on the Moon

“Humane, funny, and touching…” – The Independent, London

“Compassionate and humane…” – The New Yorker

5 Moliere Awards, Including “Best Play” – Paris, France (2001)

Khorenatsi Medal – the highest Armenian Cultural Award presented by the Armenian President on behalf of the country, 2005

Aram Tomasian is an Armenian immigrant living in 1920’s Milwaukee who has escaped the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 by the Turks in his homeland in Eastern Turkey. He wants to make a fresh start and build a new family in the new world to replace the family he lost to the genocide. He selects a mail-order bride and into his life comes an Armenian teenager, Seta, who has also escaped the vicious grip of the Ottoman warlords. He learns that building a marriage and a family is more difficult than he anticipated, but he ultimately succeeds in unexpected and heart-warming ways. Peppered with humor, irony, and bittersweet surprise, theirs is a universal story of hope, healing, redemption, and finally, love.

August 21 – September 8, 2019
Performance Schedule: Previews on August 21 and August 22 at 8pm | Thu-Sat: 8pm | Sun: 2pm

Post-show talkback with the cast! Sunday, September 1, 2019

For more information on tickets and showtimes, please call the box office at 562-436-4610, or visit https://ictlongbeach.org/2019-season/