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,...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/ctr.60.019 2023-12-31T10:19:20+01:00 Salt-Water Moon, Jennie’s Story & Under the Skin French, David Lambert, Betty Nunn, Robert 1989 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.60.019 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.60.019 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Theatre Review volume 60, page 89-90 ISSN 0315-0836 1920-941X Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 1989 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.60.019 2023-12-01T08:17:47Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Theatre Review 60 89 90 |
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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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