About the Show

The world premiere of Cordelia Lynn's new drama.

In a cottage by the sea, four women live in a house made for five. When only one of their two guests arrives for the summer, their reunion doesn't quite work out like they expected it to ...

'Sea Creatures' is Cordelia Lynn’s ('Love and Other Acts of Violence') first play at Hampstead Theatre. Former Associate and Deputy Director at the Royal Court, James Macdonald, directs.

Critic Reviews (8)

" 'Sea Creatures' lacks an identity of its own, emotions are familiar and its direction predictable. "
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“A few exchanges within scenes are repeated with a sado-masochistic spin, but this feels more like a whim than a coherent narrative idea...A bit more development and dramaturgy might have helped.”
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"It is all startling, frustrating, self-consciously elusive, its meaning glittering distantly in the horizon but just out of reach, tauntingly so."
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“Everything is stylishly assembled. There’s just nothing at the core.”
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“Poetic, portentous and absorbingly atmospheric, this contemporary fable – directed by James MacDonald – is a languid meditation on grief, resilience, and the primal forces of creation and destruction.”
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“Strangely engaging, yet entirely perplexing, ‘Sea Creatures’ sends your head spinning and leaves you grappling to know more.”
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“Throughout the show’s 110 minutes I wished that the acting could have been as strange as the text...A mysterious show which, for me, didn’t quite work.”
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“ ‘Sea Creatures’ is head-spinning in many ways and had me thinking about it for hours thereafter, debating hidden meanings...In the play we are told that the sea always has her price. In the case of ‘Sea Creatures’ that price is worth paying.”
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