Salt-Water Moon, Jennie’s Story & Under the Skin

• Published in: Canadian Theatre Review
• Main Authors: French, David, Lambert, Betty, Nunn, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1989
• Subjects: Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.60.019; https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.60.019

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.