April Leftovers
The Sea
TheaterMania.com
Peter Filichia
April 30, 2007
I was asked to be a Lucile Lortel Award nominator for the 2007-2008 season, so I?ve been going to many more off-Broadway shows. My term started on April 1, so I want to give you my opinions so far with one month down and 11 to go: Best Play: The Sea by Edward Bond. Best Actor: Greg McFadden, who plays an officious shopowner who loses his business and his mind, in The Sea. Best Actress: Delphi Harrington, as the biggest fish in a very small town, one who lords it all over everyone, in The Sea. Best Featured Actor is Gregory Salata as Evens, a grizzled old guy who just happens to be smarter and calmer than everyone else in town, in The Sea. Best Featured Actress is Nora Chester as Jessica Tilehouse, a meek and mild lady who finally does stand up to her tormentor, but not astonishingly ? making her mini-rebellion all the more realtistic, in The Sea. Best Director is Scott Alan Evans, who staged The Sea with simplicity but not simple-mindedness, using a bunch of wardrobes to create a dozen different locations. Oh, and I?d also give a Special Award to The Actors Company Theatre. It?s the troupe that produced The Sea.
By the way, if I were you, I?d see The Sea. 13 great people in the cast, and only a $20 top. That can?t be topped.