Stage Manager: James Murray
Produced by Nina O'Neil
Assistant Directed by Lorna Johnson
Set Design by Kurt Boetcher
Costume Design by Betsy Elizabeth Ann McKnight
Original Music/Sound Design by Aaron Krister Johnson
Lighting Design by Molly Neylan
Properties Design by Tera Dunlap
Scenic Art Design by Kurt Boetcher & Tera Dunlap

What they said about Natural Affection:
"Who knew that William Inge, the writer best known for chronicling sexual repression in dusty prairie towns ("Picnic", "Bus Stop") had the kind of dark and bizarre sensibility that we most commonly associate with David Lynch? Inge's later-career play about an unwed mother, her new boyfriend, and her fresh-from-reform-school son who moves in with them sank without much of a trace after its 1963 premiere. But in the hands of director John Mossman and a splendid ensemble at the tiny Artistic Home, it's damn near revelatory." 
- The Chicago Tribune

"John Mossman's staging for the Artistic Home is as uncompromising as the script. Kathy Scambiatterra gives a devastating performance as the mother..." - Chicago Reader

"Scambiatterra and Carroll...(are) wonderful to watch as they live in fondness, bickering, jealousy and passion together, always leaving us aware of their fragility...Fitzsimmons deftly manages to bring childlike devotion, innocent excitement and a toughness and violent anger to his sympathetic character...The tensions are brought to a powerful climax made even more intense by the smoldering energy and conviction this cast brings to Inge's gritty slice of life script." - Chicago Free Press

"William Inge's lost urban drama is brought back to stunning life in the tiny-but-vital Artistic Home space. The '60s never looked so sexy and unappealing at the same time...Mossman's grunting, carnal production taps the script's incestuous overtones, latent homosexuality, and violent machismo backlash against feminism, and mines them for all they're worth. The cast, all exceptional as self-destructive carousers, is clearly having a ball with the painful debauchery and seems to take particular joy in debunking popular myths of the middle class of Camelot-era America." - Time Out Chicago

"There's such an overwhelming sense of futility and hopelessness that lives under the surface of Inge's writing that, when given the chance to rise to the top, shocks in its physical and emotional veracity. Director John Mossman and his well-versed cast fully understand this as they take firm control of the language, developing finely etched performances, delivering Inge's tragic messages with dramatic eloquence. This is truly an ensemble-driven piece, and the actors have formed a cohesive unit, ebbing and flowing between the comedy and pathos integrated within the writing. Particularly striking and effective are Scambiatterra and Stephens as a pair of women attempting to find pleasure in their not-so-pleasurable state of being." - Gay Chicago