It’s a splendid moon-filled night at Coley’s Point in August, 1926. Eighteen-year-old Jacob Mercer has returned from Toronto to the tiny Newfoundland outport, hoping to win back his former sweetheart, Mary Snow. But Mary has become engaged to wealthy Jerome McKenzie, and she is still hurt and bewildered by Jacob’s abrupt departure a year earlier. She will not be easily wooed.
Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
Winner 1985 Dora Mavor Moore Award (Outstanding New Play)
Winner 1985 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner Canadian Authors Association Literary Award
Winner Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics Award and ACTRA Award
“This is a lovely play, lovingly written. We’ve not met the likes of Mary and Jacob on any stage in many a long day. You’ll not soon forget them.”
—Hollywood Drama-Logue
“[Salt-Water Moon is] a gem of a play, an old-fashioned love song that is affecting, funny, and evocative as a dream.”
—Globe and Mail
“David French has created an old-fashioned love song that fills Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre with tough talk and tender feeling.”
—Maclean’s magazine
“Salt-Water Moon shines.”
—Philadelphia Daily News
“French has packed his script with plenty of emotion and an almost poetic lilt that makes it fairly pulse with the humours and disappointments of young love.”
—Toronto Sun
“Tender as a caress, delicate as a love poem … tremendous!”
—Southam News
“The [2016 Factory Theatre] production, with no designer credited, is visually beguiling, as befits a play about a moonlit courtship. … [the] ending … is magically done”
—National Post
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