The Sea Lady NYC Reviews and Tickets
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Production Covid-19 Safety ProtocolsShow-Score Member Reviews (9)
See it if you like to see an amazing play about duty, desire, and what it means to have a soul. Very unique with spectacular acting!
Don't see it if you can't climb stairs or don't like plays in relatively small theaters however wonderful they are. Read more
See it if Well acted, directed and thoughtful production in the Metropolitan Playhouse style
Don't see it if You don't care for intelligent plays
See it if Premiere of Neith Boyce's THE SEA LADY, bound for 1935 Broadway that never arrived, challenging traditional sexual mores of the period.
Don't see it if Metropolitan is as good as it gets w/ classics on a small budget. You will get a wonderful play but not big names and opulent visuals ...
See it if The show is a delight. A reminder of shows past, and daintily British. Based on a book by H G Wells, the play is social commentary.
Don't see it if You want fast paced, modern, up to date, dialogue and action.
See it if Enjoy see show that are not done today, this show about mermaid who wants something. I not telling. Set in a lovely in the round theater.
Don't see it if Slow at part and long.
See it if Up for a fine production of a now charming, still relevant, once subversive piece about desire, individual freedom and the choices we make.
Don't see it if Mermaids, period costumes or social dramas aren't of interest, however well-mounted. Read more
See it if A well thought out show and well directed.
Don't see it if Can be slow at parts but overall decent.
See it if world premieres are exciting for you.
Don't see it if a period piece combined with magical realism seems too quirky. Read more
Critic Reviews (3)
Neith Boyce’s "The Sea Lady," a Broadway-bound play in 1935, only now having its world premiere at Metropolitan Playhouse is an attempt at a Shavian play of ideas. Based on a 1901 novel by socialist H.G. Wells, this very Edwardian story resembles Shaw’s "Misalliance" but without the wit or the scope of ideas. Extremely tentative in how far it dares to go, "The Sea Lady" seems like a relic of an earlier age. It has charm but it lacks depth; its message may have been new in 1901 when the novel came out or 1935 when the play was finished, but today it seems extremely old hat.
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"The performances are solid with two standing out as scene stealers; Pruden and Yancey-Moore. They command the stage with the bravado of vaudeville pros and knee-slapping hilarity."
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"The play itself is overlong and repetitive—the production runs nearly three hours—and could have been cut and streamlined substantially without any real sacrifice."
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