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Two By Sea by Edward Albee & Richard Greenberg

SF BAY GUARDIAN review May 2, 2001 (Brad Rosenstein)
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Finding the Sun and Life under Water Beaches are
elemental places, inspiring contemplation of the Big Questions,
but that's only one unifying thread in this double bill of one acts.
Richard Greenberg's Life under Water and Edward Albee's
Finding the Sun combine into an elegant fugue of acid wit,
fractured families, tangled sexual webs, madness, joy, and the
fragility of life. Greg Land's direction of Greenberg's play has
almost no visual sense and gets off to a shaky start, but eventually
the excellent material and strong performances by Gillian Brecker
and David Cramer take hold. Director Susannah Martin does
much stronger work on Albee's play, and Paula Barish and Zac
Jaffee turn in fine performances. The evening gets long and never
quite achieves the spell it means to cast. But it shines a welcome
light on a woefully underappreciated playwright (Greenberg) and
an unfairly neglected play (Albee's), and their thoughtful
combination makes for another intelligent offering from Paducah
Mining Co. (Rosenstein)

 

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