Seascape, Edward Albee. Director, Pamela McKimmon

In her American Conservatory Theater debut, artistic director Pam MacKinnon continues her career-long exploration of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). In this wildly imaginative and satirical comedy, a newly retired couple picnic and squabble on a beach about their life together, when they are interrupted by two human-sized, English-speaking lizards. Are these creatures an evolutionary miracle or a threat? And which couple is the greater risk to the other? As the two pairs begin to communicate, they come uneasily together, discovering how transitions in life can spark terror and restlessness in any creature of habit.
-- one review. 
Edward Albee’s “Seascape” has been around since 1975 and won the playwright his second Pulitzer Prize for drama. Even so, one might expect a play about human-sized lizards comparing notes with an older human couple to be a disorienting experience. But for Pam MacKinnon, American Conservatory Theater’s new artistic director, it’s familiar territory.
Although the ACT production is MacKinnon’s first time directing “Seascape,” this is the 11th Albee play she’s helmed, including a couple of world premieres: “Peter and Jerry” in 2007 (a companion piece to “The Zoo Story”) and “Occupant” in 2008. MacKinnon won Tony Awards for best direction and best revival of a play for her Steppenwolf-to-Broadway production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” starring Amy Morton and Tracy Letts. She also directed the star-studded 2014 Broadway revival of “A Delicate Balance.”
--another 
ACT opens its 2019 season  with Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Seascape. In her A.C.T. directorial debut, Artistic Director and Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon-hailed as "the most prolific of directors of Edward Albee's plays" (The Daily Beast)-continues her career-long exploration of American theater's legendary playwright. MacKinnon won the 2013 Tony Award for the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Tracy Letts and Amy Morton.

In this wildly imaginative and satirical comedy, a newly retired couple picnic and squabble on a beach about their life together when they are interrupted by two human-sized, English-speaking lizards. Are they an evolutionary miracle, or a threat? And which couple is the greater risk to the other? As the two pairs begin to communicate, they come uneasily together, discovering how transitions in life can spark terror and restlessness in any creature of habit. Albee returns to The Geary for the first time in a decade with a sparkling fantasy of love, laughter, and evolution. 

"Seascape marks the 11th Edward Albee production I will have directed," says MacKinnon. "Edward gave my artistic life a spine. As a freelance director, he was home-a dear friend, a colleague and mentor, a creator of worlds to play in. I miss him and plan to make him proud with this production."
-- perhaps the best....from Broadway World SF. 

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