Drama 1m/1f
It’s a splendid moon-filled night in Coley’s Point in 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…
Salt-Water Moon won the 1985 Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Drama, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics’ Award, and was a finalist for the 1985 Governor-General’s Award for Drama.
“A gem of a play, an old-fashioned love song that is affecting, funny, and evocative as a dream.”
-The Globe & Mail
“Tender as a caress, delicate as a love poem…tremendous!”
-Southam News
“This is a lovely play, lovingly written…We’ve not met the likes of Mary and Jacob on any stage in many a long day. You’ll not soon forget them.”
-Hollywood Drama-Logue
“Salt-Water Moon Shines.”
-Philadelphia Daily News