Salt-Water Moon, Jennie’s Story & Under the Skin
With the production of 1949 last fall by the Canadian Stage Company, Salt-Water Moon becomes part three in David French’s series of plays about the Mercer family. Since its first performance in 1984 it has become a staple of Canadian theatre, a sure-fire winner, not hurt a bit by its warmth, charm,...
| Published in: | Canadian Theatre Review |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
1989
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.60.019 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.60.019 |
| Summary: | With the production of 1949 last fall by the Canadian Stage Company, Salt-Water Moon becomes part three in David French’s series of plays about the Mercer family. Since its first performance in 1984 it has become a staple of Canadian theatre, a sure-fire winner, not hurt a bit by its warmth, charm, romantic theme and self-conscious “quaintness” (Jacob Mercer has brought the term back to Newfoundland from Toronto). Nor by the fact that it has a cast of two. If this sounds a bit jaundiced, it is because all that charm eases down some very suspect values. |
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