Show dates: Fridays & Saturdays, October 17, 18, 24 & 25, 2008
On a deserted stretch of beach a middle-aged couple, relaxing after a picnic lunch, talk idly about home, family and their life together. She sketches, he naps, and then suddenly, they are joined by two sea creatures-lizards who have decided to leave the ocean depths and come ashore. Initial fear, and then suspicion of each other, are soon replaced by curiosity and, before long, the humans and the lizards (who speak English) are engaged in a fascinating dialogue. The lizards, who are at a very advanced stage of evolution, are contemplating the terrifying, yet exciting, possibility of embarking on life out of the water; and the couple, for whom existences has grown flat and routine, holds the answers to their most urgent questions. These answers are given with warmth, humor and poetic eloquence, and with emotional and intellectual reverberations that will linger in the heart and mind long after the play has ended.
Originally Opened on Broadway in January of 1975
Winner of 1975 Pulitzer Prize
for Drama
Broadway Revival October 2005
“Hats off, and up in the air! A major dramatic event.”
- The New York Times
“Not only does this brilliantly original play stimulate you, it also entertains you”
-Newsday
“Of all
Mr. Albee’s Plays, SEASCAPE is the most exquisitely written.”
-The New Yorker