Sea Marks: Theater review by Diane Snyder

A great production could banish the contrivances of Sea Marks. Ciarán O’Reilly’s is halfway there, beginning with promising low-key tenderness, but never recovering from a frantically paced second act. A regional theater mainstay, Gardner McKay’s 1971 duet between an Irish fisherman and a Liverpool publishing-house employee is part soulful love story, part dialogue about the power and limitations of language—and entirely old-fashioned.