Moonlight and Magnolias is a comedy, and more specifically a farce. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines farce as “a light dramatic composition marked by broadly satirical comedy and improbable plot.” Playwright Ron Hutchinson recalled that, “The inspiration for ‘Moonlight’ came when I was visiting my father in England. I was reading Daily, Daily, the autobiography of Ben Hecht’s week rewriting Gone with the Wind, and literally from one footstep to another, it struck me, wow—this is classical farce.”
