2013 Joseph Jefferson Award -- Best Scenic Design Midsize
https://www.remybumppo.org/seascape/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJIQvv3YKs
https://www.remybumppo.org/seascape/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJIQvv3YKs
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Cast
Annabel Armour, Nancy Patrick Clear, Charlie Emjoy Gavino, Sarah Sean Parris, Leslie Understudies: Joanne Riopelle, Celeste Cooper, Gregory Geffrard |
Production
Nick Sandys, Director Angela Weber Miller, Scenic Design Rachel Laritz, Costume Design Michael McNamara, Lighting Design Victoria DeIorio, Sound design Jenny Pinson, Properties Design Samantha L. Symon, Stage Manager Assistant Director, Philip Fusco Artisitc Intern, Kate Dakota Kremer |
Chicago Tribune - Chris Jones
"... The great strength of director Nick Sandys' droll and articulate Remy Bumppo Theatre Company of Albee's eclectic drama is that it wants to take that text as gospel. Despite the full-blown scales-and-tales outfits sported by Sean Parris and Emjoy Gavino (the terrific costumes are by Rachel Laritz), playing the reptilian half of the play's quartet, both of these actors take the fears and travails of a scaly couple, encountering their human doppelgangers, at face value.... You have to admire how these actors move like lizards even as they worry like people;..." Read Full Review
Chicago Sun Times -
"an ideal production... I’ve seen a number of productions of “Seascape” over the years and all of them left me cold. Not this one. Like Albee, director Nick Sandys, Remy Bumppo’s new artistic director (and a veteran actor), has a great feel for both language (and what it can and cannot not quite say) and the emotional lives of his characters, whether human or amphibian. Armour and Clear are masters, but Parris and Gavino, whose slithering motion and expressive faces (aided and abetted by Rachel Laritz’s prize-worthy costumes) are wholly remarkable. They inhabit their species completely."
Time Out Chicago - Recommended Zac Thompson
"... Nick Sandys’s lively, literate staging for Remy Bumppo..."
Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended - Lawrence Bommer
"... Nick Sandys stages this mirror-vision exercise in altruism with all the delicacy that the discoveries deserve."
Let's Play at ChicagoNow - Highly Recommended - Katy Walsh
"... Under the tight direction of Nick Sandys, this talented cast explore the great divide between man and reptile and man and woman. "
ChicagoTheatreReview -
"Sandys has surpassed all expectations and delivers a production of Seascape that highlights the comedic normality of two people on a beach, while also making a strong poignant statement about the fear that accompanies change in life... Overall the production is cohesive, entertaining and hilarious."
"... The great strength of director Nick Sandys' droll and articulate Remy Bumppo Theatre Company of Albee's eclectic drama is that it wants to take that text as gospel. Despite the full-blown scales-and-tales outfits sported by Sean Parris and Emjoy Gavino (the terrific costumes are by Rachel Laritz), playing the reptilian half of the play's quartet, both of these actors take the fears and travails of a scaly couple, encountering their human doppelgangers, at face value.... You have to admire how these actors move like lizards even as they worry like people;..." Read Full Review
Chicago Sun Times -
"an ideal production... I’ve seen a number of productions of “Seascape” over the years and all of them left me cold. Not this one. Like Albee, director Nick Sandys, Remy Bumppo’s new artistic director (and a veteran actor), has a great feel for both language (and what it can and cannot not quite say) and the emotional lives of his characters, whether human or amphibian. Armour and Clear are masters, but Parris and Gavino, whose slithering motion and expressive faces (aided and abetted by Rachel Laritz’s prize-worthy costumes) are wholly remarkable. They inhabit their species completely."
Time Out Chicago - Recommended Zac Thompson
"... Nick Sandys’s lively, literate staging for Remy Bumppo..."
Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended - Lawrence Bommer
"... Nick Sandys stages this mirror-vision exercise in altruism with all the delicacy that the discoveries deserve."
Let's Play at ChicagoNow - Highly Recommended - Katy Walsh
"... Under the tight direction of Nick Sandys, this talented cast explore the great divide between man and reptile and man and woman. "
ChicagoTheatreReview -
"Sandys has surpassed all expectations and delivers a production of Seascape that highlights the comedic normality of two people on a beach, while also making a strong poignant statement about the fear that accompanies change in life... Overall the production is cohesive, entertaining and hilarious."