Al & I went to the theater last Friday, at a favourite little spot of ours - the Saco River Grange, Bar Mills. It's a great spot on the banks of the Saco River, and fits about 100 people at the most. It harks back to a victorian playhouse, and the audience are perched on small seats, very close together. The back few rows are elevated.
The play was called 'Salt Water Moon' by David French, and was set in Newfoundland a few years after the end of the First World War. Its themes were mainly rekindling old love, festering resentment of the war's victims etc. It had only two characters and the accents were quite Irish sounding. There lay the plays problems, since the female character started out talking too fast and quiet and with the accent too - we both lost the plot for a few minutes. It improved quickly, but I'm sure that any older audience members towards the back must have had real difficulty listening or thought it was mime. Though the male character had a booming voice/part so that balanced things somewhat.
Overall, the performance/writing was good, and the performers were excellent - though we were pleased when it was over, since we began to get a bit uncomfortable, and we thought there was a second part but then Al saw it didn't have an intermission so when the couple embraced it was all over. We're not huge fan's of only two part plays (we didn't know beforehand), since it's all back and forth, back and forth with little silence, light relief etc. We were (sorta) hoping that some character would have burst in on the proceedings with a loaded shotgun and....well, made it a murder/crime mystery!
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Salt-Water Moon is a love story that takes place on a moonlit September night in 1926, in front of a late 19th century home in rural Newfoundland. Mary Snow is waiting for her fiancé, Jerome, to come visit her after Bob Foote's wake, and is looking through a telescope at the moon and stars to pass the time.By the way,I like custom baseball hats
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