MARY’S WEDDING by Stephen Massicotte. Jul 14 at noon, Jul 16 at 7:30 pm. Factory Mainspace. See listing. Rating: NNNN
Stephen Massicotte’s drama about a pair of mismatched lovers (she’s a well-to-do English immigrant, he’s a modest prairie farm boy) in 1920 gets a fine production that beautifully captures the work’s bittersweet, dreamlike quality.
Massicotte plays ambitiously with time and place – it’s partly set in the trenches at Ypres – but director Blair Haynes and actors Jesse Nerenberg and Blythe Haynes make the transitions seamless, the performers adding lots of warmth and passion (Haynes also doubles as a stiff-upper-lip sergeant).
The show’s design (lighting and sound by Jonathan Epstein, set and costumes by Liam Hanebury) help a lot in establishing mood. And you can tell from the audience’s rapt silence that this is a special show, not to be missed.
