Seascape

By Edward Albee
Directed by Artistic Director Nick Sandys
Featuring Artistic Associate Annabel Armour

Presented September 12 - October 14, 2012

Greenhouse Theater Center, Upstairs Mainstage

Some escape to the sea. Some escape from it.

In Seascape, land meets sea and present meets past, when an older human couple come face to snout with their prehistoric selves. Albee’s linguistic playfulness and willingness to make his characters confront the dangerous unknown create a scenario both deeply thoughtful and absurdly funny.

Charlie and Nancy, a recently retired, happily married couple, are enjoying an afternoon on the beach, disturbed only by the occasional low-flying plane and their own arguments, when suddenly their peace and their ideas are threatened by the appearance of a younger, adventurous couple—who just happen to be of another species as well. This winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize displays all of Albee's singular linguistic playfulness as well as his willingness to make his characters bravely confront their own everyday fears and face the dangerous unknown The last time Remy Bumppo tackled Albee, both the production and Annabel Armour earned Jeff Awards. This time the human relationships with animals are strictly platonic—a journey into primordial eons and emotions, where lizard brains and human pains face futures both immediate and infinite.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning script and giant lizards - theatre doesn’t get any better than this.

"skilled, unpretentious and passionate"
–Chicago Tribune on our production of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

Multimedia

Watch video clips, hear audio, and view photos from Seascape on our multimedia page

Explore our online Field Guide, featuring research, study tools, and snippets about the production. www.remybumppofieldguide.org

Between The Lines

Saturday, September 29, 2012, at 1:30 pm

William Irons, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University will discuss evolutionary biology and social behavior as it pertains to Edward Albee’s Seascape.
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Sponsors

The 2012/2013 Season is generously underwritten by:
TERRI ABRUZZO CALLAHAN AND DAVE CALLAHAN
BRENDA AND JAMES GRUSECKI

Seascape is underwritten, in part, by:
GEOFFREY A. ANDERSON, Associate Production Sponsor
NANCY A. MCDANIEL, Associate Production Sponsor

KAREN RANDOLPH AND BILL LINDEN, Assistant Production Sponsors

Cast

Annabel Armour as Nancy

Patrick Clear as Charlie

Emjoy Gavino as Sarah

Sean Parris as Leslie