Review: Edward Albee’s ‘Seascape’ at The Alley will sweep you away

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The moving, well-acted play about two couples, one human and one reptile, talking about life is much more than its strange premise.

Philip Goodwin as Charlie and Franchelle Stewart Dorn as Nancy in Alley Theatre's production of Edward Albee's 'Seascape'It’s rare when a production’s brightest light doesn’t slither onstage until the end of the first act, and rarer still when that massive presence is…a lizard.

Like Albee's other work, most famously “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “Seascape,” which won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, revolves around marital combat. But this is less nuclear war than spirited skirmish. Nancy and Charlie have been married forever; as they sit on an unnamed, eternal strip of beach, they sift through old resentments and grudges in a way that also reflects their shared affection.

Enter the lizards, or, rather, the lizard people, just before intermission. They creep up from the end of the stage, as frightened as the humans they soon meet. Leslie and Sarah speak English and, for the most, crawl twitchingly on all fours.

 

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