SEASCAPE WITH SHARKS AND DANCERS
Don Nigro’s Seascape With Sharks and Dancers is very much in the spirit of such adolescent male fantasies. A pathetically passive and lonely man–Ben calls himself a writer, but he rarely writes and really makes his living as a librarian–saves a strange woman, Tracy, from drowning and then proceeds to save her again and again throughout the play–from her past, from her misconceptions about life, and from her own fears. Eventually this Christlike man earns her grudging trust and love, which we are somehow supposed to take as a happy ending.
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“Never sleep with anyone more neurotic than you are,” my college roommate once glibly advised me. Both characters in this play could have benefited from his advice. Not only would they have been happier, so would those of us in the audience who had to suffer through this nonsense.
