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Dark of the Moon is a dramatic stage play by Howard Richardson and William Berney which had a ten-month run on Broadway in 1945, followed by a national tour and eventually numerous college and high-school productions. It is also revived professionally, e.g. by Pittsburgh's Quantum Theatre in 2005. Original London production 1948 – 1949, at Ambassadors Theatre, was an early much admired production by the distinguished director Peter Brook..
Set in the Appalachian Mountains and written in an Appalachian dialect, the play centers on the character of John, a witch boy who seeks to become human after falling in love with a human girl, Barbara Allen. Originally written by Howard Richardson in 1939 as a dramatization of the centuries-old European folk song "The Ballad of Barbara Allen", it was first performed at the University of Iowa in 1942 under the title Barbara Allen.
After a rewrite by Richardson's cousin, William Berney, it was presented at the Brattle Playhouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Shuberts saw it and transferred it (mainly re-cast) to the 46th Street Theatre in New York City on March 14, 1945, directed by Robert E. Perry. Although Dark of the Moon is not a musical, it was originally billed as a "legend with music" and characters do sing in most productions. Paul Newman and Richard Hart once played the role of John.
Dark of the Moon may refer to:
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon, a 2011 film, the fifth Transformers film
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (video game), a video game based on the 2011 film
- Dark of the Moon (play), a play by American playwrights William Berney and Howard Richardson
- "Dark of the Moon" (The Unit), an episode of the television series The Unit
- Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre, a 1947 poetry anthology edited by August Derleth
- Dark of the Moon, a 1968 mystery novel by John Dickson Carr
- Dark of the Moon, a 2005 novel by John Sandford
- Dark of the Moon, a 2009 paranormal romance novel, third in the Dark Guardian series
Usage examples of "dark of the moon".
A few went on, however, passing Tai-tastigon in the dark of the moon and were never heard of againuntil now.
There were tales of dancing lights in the dark of the moon, and of chill winds when the night was warm.
Even the dark of the moon is shining light to the gloom of that Pit.
Road crossings like this are sacred to her, provided there's no house in sight, and the dark of the moon is the best time.
Even the Lovers' Shadow is worshipped there, though with cautious and propitiatory rites enacted at the dark of the Moon.
It was the dark of the moon, and the pale starlight that fell through the rows of high, arched windows did little to illuminate the still figures.
He had time enough to signal a halt and sink the standard of the Eagle deep into the ever-present grit, securing it so whatever protection it might afford would lie over the camp they would now, in the dark of the moon, permit themselves to build.