Salt-Water Moon

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Salt-Water Moon
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David French
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:88
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9780889222571
ClassificationsDewey:812
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Talon Books,Canada
Imprint Talon Books,Canada
Publication Date 1 January 1988
Publication Country Canada

Description

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.

Author Biography

David French Born in Coley's Point, Newfoundland, David French was one of Canada's best-known and most critically acclaimed playwrights. His work received many major awards, and French was one of the first inductees into the Newfoundland Arts Hall of Honour. Among his best-loved works are the semi-autobiographical Mercer plays: Salt-Water Moon; 1949; Leaving Home, recently named one of Canada's 100 Most Influential Books (Literary Review of Canada) and one of the 1,000 Most Essential Plays in the English Language (Oxford Dictionary of Theatre); Of the Fields, Lately and Soldier's Heart. The Mercer plays have received hundreds of productions across North America, including a Broadway production of Of the Fields, Lately. This quintet of plays about a Newfoundland family has also touched audiences in Europe, South America and Australia. In addition, French produced skillful adaptations of Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest, Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and August Strindberg's Miss Julie.

Reviews

"A gem of a play ... affecting, funny and as evocative as a dream."