Sea Marks
by Gardner Mckay

This is the touching story of a fisherman living on a remote Irish island who has fallen in love with a woman he's glimpsed only once.

Unschooled in letter writing, he tries his utmost to court by mail and after a year and a half succeeds in arranging a rendezvous at which, to his surprise, she persuades him to live with her in Liverpool.

Their love affair ends when he is forced to return to a life he understands.

From the author: "If this play is about anything, it might be about knowing our place.

Especially in liquid times, when we can easily flow wherever, and seemingly become whatever.

To hold a way of life, something secretly treasured, maybe without knowing it, has become and obsolete idea, now called stagnation.

But being mobile, trading up, "bettering yourself" is a respectable life's work, while other, simpler concerns are postponed."