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THE SEAFARER Reviews
re: THE SEAFARER Reviews#25
Posted: 12/7/07 at 1:34pm
I was there last night as well, and really enjoyed it. Some of the best acting in years. Norton was beyond brilliant.
I still have AUGUST to see, but so far this is a winner for me.
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
re: THE SEAFARER Reviews#26
Posted: 12/8/07 at 2:49am
Thanks Margo and everyone else. I am intrigued by this tale. It seems though it will be the performers more than the story that has got my attention so far. I still fear that the title of the show will leave me wishing for something more out of the story.
I'd take it over a soap opera any day of the week though. Hopefully it will hold out until I get a chance to come back to NY.
re: THE SEAFARER Reviews#27
Posted: 12/8/07 at 2:29pm
I'm certainly glad that THE SEAFARER has gotten such great reviews. I do wish that Brantley hadn't made that little gratuitous swipe at IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, though. Capra's film is a lot tougher and meaner than it's syrupy reputation would have one think.
Gratuitous swipe of my own: Maybe if Brantley removed his face from the seat of Tom Stoppard's pants he could revisit IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and recognize it for the masterwork that it is.
re: THE SEAFARER Reviews#28
Posted: 12/9/07 at 7:53pm
"I still fear that the title of the show will leave me wishing for something more out of the story."
They don't sing any sea shanties, if that's what one is looking for. 
...but I think the devil may be the seafarer of the play. His speech about hell suggests it. Sharkey was potentially on his way to the same 'sea' for most of the play. The play isn't about the sea as we know it in a direct sense, but the sea is in there thematically and we know Sharkey has been exiled from the earthly sea due to his drinking. Even the sounds of the sea (seagulls, for one) can be heard in the background as well.
...by the way, Seafarer Trivia Question: Who here knows how to pronounce Ciaran Hinds first name properly? I was walking through a Seafarer audience letting out of the theater a while back and heard some people talking about the cast using very incorrect pronounciations for the poor guy's name. 
Maybe a bottle of poteen for the winner. (yeah, right!)
re: THE SEAFARER Reviews#29
Posted: 12/9/07 at 8:04pm
It's pronounced kee-rihn.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
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re: THE SEAFARER Reviews#30
Posted: 12/9/07 at 8:07pm
I don't know how to pronounce his first name correctly, but if I had to guess I would pronounce it "KEER-en" (that's the best way I can think to spell it phonetically). I'd like to know the correct pronunciation, though!
It's interesting to read the poem from which the play derives it's title. I'm still working through it to analyze the connections. It seems to fit Sharky's life and his journey.
The Seafarer (anglo saxon poem)
re: THE SEAFARER Reviews#31
Posted: 12/10/07 at 5:17am
Here's from Wikipedia:
"Ciarán.
Ciarán, Kieran, Kyran, Keiran, Kieren, or Kieron, (pronunciation: /kɪˈɛra:n/ or Kee-uh-rawn, with the 'uh' barely spoken; the name is Anglicised as Kieran, pronounced Kee-ran where the long 'a' of the Irish is shortened"
So, we'll let the two of you split a bottle of poteen.
The people outside the Booth were calling him 'See-air-in.' Anything beginning with a 'k' is more accurate than that!
re: THE SEAFARER Reviews#32
Posted: 12/18/07 at 10:20pm
Here's another very positive review I just came upon. (It's very SPOILERISH, though -- even beyond some of the other reviews -- so be warned!) I thought I'd post it because it brings up the poem 'the seafarer', which was mentioned above.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2007/12/17/071217crth_theatre_lahr?currentPage=1
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