SOMEONE IS GOING TO COME by Jon Fosse (One Little Goat). At Walmer Centre (188 Lowther). To March 29. See Continuing. Rating: NN
In Someone Is Going To Come, Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse sets up an emotional triangle of jealousy, seduction and protectiveness. Because of weak casting, the production by One Little Goat dissipates almost all the script’s tension.
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He (Dwight McFee) and She (Stacie Steadman) have bought a remote oceanside house to cocoon from the rest of the world. But the Man (Michael Blake) who sold them his family property quietly threatens their happiness.
At first He’s content with their isolation, while She worries that another will interrupt their extended country idyll (set to bucolic Beethoven). After the Man enters their world, She soothes the distraught He.
Director Adam Seelig and his actors communicate the script’s flowing lyricism, a quality that echoes the ocean, seen alternately as calming or disturbing. Jackie Chau’s minimal set picks up on the suggestive language.
But the acting rarely captures the play’s blend of menace, need and anxiety. McFee’s superficial performance rarely conveys any strong emotion, while Blake suggests predatoriness and sensuality – the title is sexual, too – only for a few moments near the end.
Steadman is the most consistent performer, her face and voice hinting at unspoken depths in a woman unwillingly caught between two men.
