The Irish Repertory Theatre
presents

SEA MARKS

Written by GARDNER McKAY
Directed by CIARÁN O'REILLY

Featuring
XANTHE ELBRICK & PATRICK FITZGERALD

Set Design: CHARLIE CORCORAN
Sound Design: M. FLORIAN STAAB
Costume Design: LEON DOBLOWSKI
Lighting Design: MICHAEL GOTTLIEB
Original Music: RYAN RUMERY

Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 727-2737 or www.OvationTix.com
May 5 through June 15, 2014

Subtitled “an Irish love story”, this two-character play pits an isolated Irish “spinster” fisherman against a citified Welsh girl who works for a publisher in Liverpool. He saw her at a local wedding, and has never forgotten her. Summoning all his courage, Colm writes her a letter, tossing out a lure, as it were. He is more than delighted when she writes back, and thus the 1966 version of an online relationship begins.

Step two, an actual meeting, is made possible by the marriage of her cousin on the fisherman’s island. He encourages her to attend, and she does. Now the personal sparks begin to fly, over glasses of whiskey, of course. Ultimately Timothea entices him to visit Liverpool, although he isn’t much for city life.

Let’s just say that things progress even further, as such things do. Then the first stumbling block. Timothea makes a secret move that will force Colm to remain in Liverpool, if he can accept what she’s done. He goes along with the plan for a while, actually a bit delighted with the prospect. But in the end the conflict of love of a person versus love of his old lifestyle brings things to a head.

XANTHE ELBRICK and PATRICK FITZGERALD make this an enjoyable production, even if the ending seems rather inevitable from the start. The scenic design by CHARLIE CORCORAN and the lighting design by MICHAEL GOTTLIEB are perfect to enhance the tale. It’s always a pleasure to see people falling love.

-Karen D’Onofrio-